Ground squirrels are known to hold on to long periods of hibernation through the strategic help of ureolytic bacteria. Here’s the why and how this connection is important to us.
Cooperation
Negative interactions between bacteria were thought to be the rule… Until now.
Scientists uncover how a bacterium, living within a soil-dwelling fungus, protects its host from predatory nematodes.
Plants love bacteria, bacteria love plants back. Who loves who more?
Xylitol metabolism by gut bacteria has unexplored and intriguing benefits.
In the environment, microbes don’t live alone but rather in a community. But do microbes necessarily cooperate within these communities in order to survive?
Streptomyces spores have found a way to use motile soil bacteria and travel to new destinations.
Mitochondria are our powerhouses: they give us energy from the oxygen we breathe. But did you know other powerhouses exist?
A story about two bacteria working together to produce a stinky rotten-egg smell.
Sharing resources is necessary to survive. Meet PT and MT, a bacterium and an archaeon, which have developed a way to evolve together to share nutrients, hand in hand.
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