Novel Fungus-Cyanobacterium Symbiosis https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2025/04/novel-fungus-cyanobacterium-symbiosis.html

A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium #symbiosis from subtropical forests https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt4093

"Despite resembling a lichen's vegetative tissue, their sample had an unexpected feature: it was made of interwoven cyanobacterial filaments that enclosed fungal hyphae. Both partners turned out to be previously undescribed species, different from those found in #lichens"

Good day to you, my lovelies. I hope you're having an excellent day. I've come down with a tiny cold myself, but I'm doing fine. This morning, I started doodling, and I think this might turn into something new... So here's the first of a series: say hello to Monsieur Microbe :D Also, happy Friday to all! Enjoy your weekend and keep it spooky

https://www.europesays.com/uk/109822/ New strain of bacteria found on China’s Tiangong space station #astronauts #ChinaMannedSpaceAgency #ChineseScientists #Microbes #radiation #Science #Space #TiangongSpaceStation #UK #UnitedKingdom

Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up https://phys.org/news/2025-04-hotter-temps-trigger-wetlands-emit.html

Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250423164047.htm

New #ISEPpapers! Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Endosymbiotic #Ciliates (Peritrichia, Mobilida) of Marine #Invertebrates with Descriptions of Two #NewSpecies Urceolaria clepsydra n. sp. and Urceolaria bratalia n. sp. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeu.70003

After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in #BalticSea mud, researchers bring prehistoric #algae back to life https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-oxygen-baltic-sea-mud.html

Resurrection of a #diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment: Sarah Bolius et al. https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae252/7942337

"Such deposits are like a time capsule containing valuable information about past ecosystems and the inhabiting biological communities, their population development and genetic changes"

#ISEPpapers 26: October 2024 to March 2025 https://www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppapers-26

Your twenty-sixth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!

New #ISEPpaper! On the possibility of yet a third #kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.02936-24 by Corinna Benz et al.

"While #kinetoplastids have an unconventional kinetochore system and #euglenids have a canonical one similar to traditional model #eukaryotes, preliminary searches detected neither unconventional nor canonical kinetochore components in #diplonemids."

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @grrlscientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PeterCarter #PaulBeckwith #microbes #microorganisms

How the climate breakdown influences earth's microbiome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QofeVqHdQmw

New #ISEPpapers! Hijacking and integration of algal #plastids and #mitochondria in a polar planktonic host: Ananya Kedige Rao et al. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00392-6

"Hosts steal active plastids, mitochondria, and nuclei from the microalga #Phaeocystis... Stolen plastids increase in volume, and their photosynthetic activity is boosted... Stolen mitochondria transform into a network in close association with plastids"

If anybody is in #Tokyo and would like to hear about some of my work in #scicomm and #community #biology that is to say: expanding the BioArtBot palette with place-based #microbes; please drop by the BioClub on Monday evening https://bioclub.tokyo/en/events/bioartbot

Video and article from our lab about our latest giant virus paper

"Researchers discover large dormant virus can be reactivated in model green alga"

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/04/researchers-discover-large-dormant-virus-can-be-reactivated-in-m.html

And link to original paper
https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2552/full

You know that thing about sufficiently advanced #technology being indistinguishable from #magic ?

That's how I feel about #bread.

And #beer.

And #preserving vegetables in brine.

Let's hear it for good guy #microbes.

Emulsion technique boosts plant growth with bacteria

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-emulsion-technique-boosts-growth-bacteria.html

#Microbes are in a constant battle for survival! Researchers from @LeibnizHKI @unijena @microverse_exc @unibayreuth discovered how the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae uses a chemical radar to detect and eliminate predatory #amoebae .The #bacteria produce harmless molecules that the amoebae modify, revealing their presence. P. syringae detects this and produces toxic substances to eliminate the predator. This mechanism could inspire new drugs and pest control strategies! @dfg_public #EFRE

Pink snow tints the edges of Antarctica https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-24/pink-snow-tints-the-edges-of-antarctica.html

"The #algae that covers Mount Reina Sofía in patches is Sanguina nivaloides, a species first described in 2019. The meaning of its scientific name in Latin is eloquent: blood in the snow. Each creature has a single cell, about 20 thousandths of a millimeter in size, with a molecule inside that gives it its characteristic red color: #astaxanthin... the same pigment that produces the color of salmon"

Ancient marine organism's dual-layer structure reveals both past and present ocean environments https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-marine-dual-layer-reveals.html

A cosmopolitan calcifying benthic #foraminifera in agglutinated disguise as a geochemical recorder of coastal environments https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413054122

"This species has a remarkable hidden feature—an inner shell made of calcium carbonate beneath its outer layer of gathered particles... [this] made them an excellent recorder of environmental conditions."