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Microbial Advent Calendar 2k18 – House of Mussel

After a short break, we stay in the deep sea with another fascinating symbiotic system. For this Microbial Advent Calendar weekend, we have a look at the bathymodiolin mussels! I personally worked with those mussels during my Ph.D. and they keep on fascinating me as an organism capable of establishing so many…
Adrien
December 17, 2018
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Microbial Advent Calendar 2k18 – Another exception to a rule

For the 1oth (!!!) Microbial Advent Calendar we are not moving away very far away from our "Wolbachia Special" and we look at a very recent study describing an extracellular Rickettsia. Why is this fascinating and worth mentioning? Well because to date all the known Rickettsiales (the whole order of…
Adrien
December 11, 2018
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Microbial Advent Calendar 2k18 – Non Mainstream dividing

The second day of the Microbial Advent Calendar and today we have a sneak peak into the incredible world of nematodes associated with bacteria. There is an incredible diversity of host-associated systems in the nematode realm, today we a have a look at Laxus oneistus. This worm looks like, when you…
Adrien
December 2, 2018
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Microbial Advent Calendar – 11 Yeti Crabs

For the 11th day of the Microbial Advent Calendar what about a fantastic winter themed monster? Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the mythical, the mysterious, the only one, the YETI crabs... *Cough, Cough* Unlike its (still) elusive homonym, the yeti crab is the informal name of a deep…
Adrien
December 11, 2017
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