The title speaks for itself, but damn, look at these figures! Last week in PLoS ONE, cool kids Montagna et al. (2013) showed some rather dramatic…
View More The Deep-sea footprint of Deepwater HorizonTag: nematodes
Marine nematodes have a microbiome too (and it’s way cooler than yours)
By now you’re probably aware that your entire skin surface (and every orafice) is swarming with millions of microbes. The human microbiome is pretty sexy…
View More Marine nematodes have a microbiome too (and it’s way cooler than yours)Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Ironically enough, I was at a meeting about oil spills when the Macondo well blew. The “Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic waters” workshop…
View More Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spillOur badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights
Make no mistake about it — I am shamelessly pimping out our lab’s new paper, written by yours truly. In fact, the title of this…
View More Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insightsA great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
View More A great day for a little Traumatic InseminationMarine Fungi are Totally Badass
That’s right, you heard me—there are mushrooms that live in the sea. OK, well technically a mushroom is a fruiting body of a fungus with…
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