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  1. I've got a quick question for the friendly microbiologists of Mastodon.

    It's my understanding that it's common for some environmental change to wipe out 90+% of a bacterial colony, only to have the survivors quickly multiply back to their original numbers, this time with a mutation that grants resistance to whatever the threat was.

    Is there a name for this phenomenon (not "gene fixation," but the die back and recovery)? Are there canonical papers about it?

    EDIT: I think "population bottleneck" is the best way to describe what I mean, though I got a few other very good suggestions for related terms.

    Thanks everyone! You guys are the best. ❤️

    #microbiology #bacteria

  2. Uncovering the endophytic bacterial diversity and crop improvement potential under salinity stress in the halophyte Halocnemum strobilaceum

    #OpenAccess #PGPB #salinity #bacteria #microbiology

    davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/

  3. This supplement may help stop chemicals from harming your sperm

    The secret to stronger swimmers may be living in your gut.  A growing body of research suggests that an industrial chemical found in plastic food containers and other everyday products m…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #bacteria #chemicals #Fertility #health #menshealth #nutrition #Plastic #poop #studysays #supplements
    diningandcooking.com/2655268/t

  4. This supplement may help stop chemicals from harming your sperm

    The secret to stronger swimmers may be living in your gut.  A growing body of research suggests that an industrial chemical found in plastic food containers and other everyday products m…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #bacteria #chemicals #Fertility #health #menshealth #nutrition #Plastic #poop #studysays #supplements
    diningandcooking.com/2655268/t

  5. This supplement may help stop chemicals from harming your sperm

    The secret to stronger swimmers may be living in your gut.  A growing body of research suggests that an industrial chemical found in plastic food containers and other everyday products m…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #bacteria #chemicals #Fertility #health #menshealth #nutrition #Plastic #poop #studysays #supplements
    diningandcooking.com/2655268/t

  6. This supplement may help stop chemicals from harming your sperm

    The secret to stronger swimmers may be living in your gut.  A growing body of research suggests that an industrial chemical found in plastic food containers and other everyday products m…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #bacteria #chemicals #Fertility #health #menshealth #nutrition #Plastic #poop #studysays #supplements
    diningandcooking.com/2655268/t

  7. 🦠It takes a village--a #bacteria village!
    🔖Keystone taxa of phyllosphere microbiome confer resistance to #citrus bacterial canker in pomelo.
    🍃Read this important new study by Yuan et al. right here in #JIPB!
    doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70273
    @WileyLifeSci
    #PlantSci #plant #pathology #botany

  8. 🦠It takes a village--a #bacteria village!
    🔖Keystone taxa of phyllosphere microbiome confer resistance to #citrus bacterial canker in pomelo.
    🍃Read this important new study by Yuan et al. right here in #JIPB!
    doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70273
    @WileyLifeSci
    #PlantSci #plant #pathology #botany

  9. 🐨🍼 Scientists at the University of the #SunshineCoast in #Queensland, #Australia, are milking #koalas to analyze their milk.

    They found the liquid contains unique proteins that kill harmful #bacteria and #fungi. The #research helps explain how joeys survive in their mothers’ pouches and offers clues for better koala #conservation.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/animal-fa

    #koala #biology #marsupials #mammals #wildlife #science #evolution #zoology #biochemistry #nature #microbiology

  10. 🐨🍼 Scientists at the University of the #SunshineCoast in #Queensland, #Australia, are milking #koalas to analyze their milk.

    They found the liquid contains unique proteins that kill harmful #bacteria and #fungi. The #research helps explain how joeys survive in their mothers’ pouches and offers clues for better koala #conservation.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/animal-fa

    #koala #biology #marsupials #mammals #wildlife #science #evolution #zoology #biochemistry #nature #microbiology

  11. 🐨🍼 Scientists at the University of the #SunshineCoast in #Queensland, #Australia, are milking #koalas to analyze their milk.

    They found the liquid contains unique proteins that kill harmful #bacteria and #fungi. The #research helps explain how joeys survive in their mothers’ pouches and offers clues for better koala #conservation.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/animal-fa

    #koala #biology #marsupials #mammals #wildlife #science #evolution #zoology #biochemistry #nature #microbiology

  12. 🐨🍼 Scientists at the University of the #SunshineCoast in #Queensland, #Australia, are milking #koalas to analyze their milk.

    They found the liquid contains unique proteins that kill harmful #bacteria and #fungi. The #research helps explain how joeys survive in their mothers’ pouches and offers clues for better koala #conservation.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/animal-fa

    #koala #biology #marsupials #mammals #wildlife #science #evolution #zoology #biochemistry #nature #microbiology

  13. 🐨🍼 Scientists at the University of the #SunshineCoast in #Queensland, #Australia, are milking #koalas to analyze their milk.

    They found the liquid contains unique proteins that kill harmful #bacteria and #fungi. The #research helps explain how joeys survive in their mothers’ pouches and offers clues for better koala #conservation.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/animal-fa

    #koala #biology #marsupials #mammals #wildlife #science #evolution #zoology #biochemistry #nature #microbiology

  14. ☕️ Both caffeinated and decaf #coffee altered gut #bacteria in ways linked to better #mood and lower #stress. #Decaf even improved #learning and #memory, while #caffeine boosted focus and reduced #anxiety.

    📝 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-712

    #Neuroscience

  15. 🌍🌋 Three tectonic plates are pulling apart in northeastern #Ethiopia to create the #Danakil Depression. This geological rift contains #magma pools and acidic #springs where the average temperature exceeds 46ºC.

    Scientists visit the site to study #polyextremophiles which are #bacteria that survive in environments with no oxygen and high acidity.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #geology #earthscience #biology #extremophiles #nature #science #environment #research #volcanoes #africa

  16. 🌍🌋 Three tectonic plates are pulling apart in northeastern #Ethiopia to create the #Danakil Depression. This geological rift contains #magma pools and acidic #springs where the average temperature exceeds 46ºC.

    Scientists visit the site to study #polyextremophiles which are #bacteria that survive in environments with no oxygen and high acidity.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #geology #earthscience #biology #extremophiles #nature #science #environment #research #volcanoes #africa

  17. 🌍🌋 Three tectonic plates are pulling apart in northeastern #Ethiopia to create the #Danakil Depression. This geological rift contains #magma pools and acidic #springs where the average temperature exceeds 46ºC.

    Scientists visit the site to study #polyextremophiles which are #bacteria that survive in environments with no oxygen and high acidity.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #geology #earthscience #biology #extremophiles #nature #science #environment #research #volcanoes #africa

  18. 🌍🌋 Three tectonic plates are pulling apart in northeastern #Ethiopia to create the #Danakil Depression. This geological rift contains #magma pools and acidic #springs where the average temperature exceeds 46ºC.

    Scientists visit the site to study #polyextremophiles which are #bacteria that survive in environments with no oxygen and high acidity.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #geology #earthscience #biology #extremophiles #nature #science #environment #research #volcanoes #africa

  19. 🌍🌋 Three tectonic plates are pulling apart in northeastern #Ethiopia to create the #Danakil Depression. This geological rift contains #magma pools and acidic #springs where the average temperature exceeds 46ºC.

    Scientists visit the site to study #polyextremophiles which are #bacteria that survive in environments with no oxygen and high acidity.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/environme

    #geology #earthscience #biology #extremophiles #nature #science #environment #research #volcanoes #africa

  20. #Socialinsect #nests are #ecosystems with a #diversity of #organisms.
    In #leafcutterant #Atta #texana nests, mite #Histiostoma #bakeri reduces harmful #fungi in detritus chambers (S.F. Wirth & J.C. Moser 2008).
    A. Panchal et al. (2025) found #termite #Odontotermes #obesus to reduce harmful fungi from its food #funguscultivar using fungicides of #bacteria.

    ©#StefanFWirth

    Ref
    (2008)
    Proceed. 6th EURAAC

    (2025)
    doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2713

    pic
    O. obesus, Nikhil More, 2020,
    creativecommons.org/licenses/b

  21. 7-May-2026
    How #soil #bacteria help #plants defend themselves against disease
    Researchers at the University of Liège have uncovered a new mechanism by which soil bacteria activate plants’ immune defenses

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #ecology #plantPhysiology

  22. 7-May-2026
    How #soil #bacteria help #plants defend themselves against disease
    Researchers at the University of Liège have uncovered a new mechanism by which soil bacteria activate plants’ immune defenses

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #ecology #plantPhysiology

  23. 7-May-2026
    How #soil #bacteria help #plants defend themselves against disease
    Researchers at the University of Liège have uncovered a new mechanism by which soil bacteria activate plants’ immune defenses

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #ecology #plantPhysiology

  24. 7-May-2026
    How #soil #bacteria help #plants defend themselves against disease
    Researchers at the University of Liège have uncovered a new mechanism by which soil bacteria activate plants’ immune defenses

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #ecology #plantPhysiology

  25. 7-May-2026
    How #soil #bacteria help #plants defend themselves against disease
    Researchers at the University of Liège have uncovered a new mechanism by which soil bacteria activate plants’ immune defenses

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #ecology #plantPhysiology

  26. Molecular gatekeepers in bacteria prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance

    A new study finds that bacteria can actively block the transfer of beneficial genes to neighboring cells, using…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AntibioticResistance #AU #Australia #Bacteria #Bacterial #dna #Gene #GeneTransfer #Genes #Genetic
    newsbeep.com/au/631572/

  27. Molecular gatekeepers in bacteria prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance

    A new study finds that bacteria can actively block the transfer of beneficial genes to neighboring cells, using…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AntibioticResistance #AU #Australia #Bacteria #Bacterial #dna #Gene #GeneTransfer #Genes #Genetic
    newsbeep.com/au/631572/

  28. Simulations of your #gut may predict which #probiotics will stick
    Commercial probiotics work for some people, one-size-fits-all approach hasn’t reliably benefited consumers. Instead, new simulations can predict whether a specific #bacteria strain will successfully take up residence in a person’s gut.
    The simulations, called microbial community–scale metabolic models, are built on what scientists already know about how #gutbacteria eat and use food.
    sciencenews.org/article/probio
    archive.ph/NEZj1

  29. I wonder how we can get people with #time to really #risk more in others + #invest time (not money.

    And FLUSH CLEANER our bad methodology / mentality in accepting to audio talk it out a bit more...

    #kindly + #constructively

    Hmm, this is what I think often when I see a GREAT account like yours as it's great but clearly we need to 'engage' ourselves like #nodes / #bacteria / #ants to get rid of the other bad stuff like #Trump ETC

    BUT nobody really listens or invests #2way time ⌚ 🔈 🙈 🙉 🙊 💌

  30. It's official, the final version of our newest research is out in The ISME Journal: "Bacteria use a catabolic patchwork pathway of apparently recent origin for degradation of the synthetic buffer compound TRIS"

    Read all about how #Pseudomonas and other #bacteria have learned to eat our well-beloved #TRIS buffer.

    doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrad023

    #microbiology #catabolism #ISME #HGT #plasmid #OA #evolution

  31. It's official, the final version of our newest research is out in The ISME Journal: "Bacteria use a catabolic patchwork pathway of apparently recent origin for degradation of the synthetic buffer compound TRIS"

    Read all about how #Pseudomonas and other #bacteria have learned to eat our well-beloved #TRIS buffer.

    doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrad023

    #microbiology #catabolism #ISME #HGT #plasmid #OA #evolution

  32. It's official, the final version of our newest research is out in The ISME Journal: "Bacteria use a catabolic patchwork pathway of apparently recent origin for degradation of the synthetic buffer compound TRIS"

    Read all about how #Pseudomonas and other #bacteria have learned to eat our well-beloved #TRIS buffer.

    doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrad023

    #microbiology #catabolism #ISME #HGT #plasmid #OA #evolution

  33. It's official, the final version of our newest research is out in The ISME Journal: "Bacteria use a catabolic patchwork pathway of apparently recent origin for degradation of the synthetic buffer compound TRIS"

    Read all about how #Pseudomonas and other #bacteria have learned to eat our well-beloved #TRIS buffer.

    doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrad023

    #microbiology #catabolism #ISME #HGT #plasmid #OA #evolution

  34. 🦷🍭 While #sugar is often blamed for cavities, it's actually the lactic acid produced by #bacteria as they digest #carbohydrates that weakens enamel.

    Human saliva typically neutralizes these #acids within 30 mins. but frequent snacking can keep mouth pH levels low enough to cause permanent damage. Experts recommend waiting at least 20 mins. after eating before brushing to allow enamel to re-harden.

    👉 popsci.com/health/does-sugar-c

    #health #dentistry #science #biology #teeth #nutrition #wellness #habit #oralhealth #education