Dave McCauley spent 35 years overturning assumptions about how populations evolve.
1st w/ beetles; finding that single females could found entire new populations.
Then w/ plants; discovering that mitochondrial DNA is more dynamic and variable than expected.
New study shows crop species, and not soil type, primarily determines the beneficial functions provided by root-associated microbes.
Full story👇
https://t.co/TgZE8Mzkfi
❓Can we predict ocean carbon cycling by looking at what microbes do rather than who they are?🌊
During his PhD in PriME, Ryan Reynolds explored this question by combining global metagenomic with metabolic modeling 😀
Check out his last publication 👇
https://t.co/Ao2tRpHh5a
Adaptation to a host-associated lifestyle is associated with convergent loss of flagella-related genes in Pseudomonadota
#microbiology#flagella#Pseudomonas@BioMedCentral
https://t.co/yuOHg2hXDh