Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...
Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...
A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single ...
Age might well be just a number, but for a plant in Utah known affectionately as Pando, it could be a digit that leaves all ...
What we’re learning today and over the past decade, is that that sometimes microbes explain more biological trait variation in organisms than the genes do. This is the case, for instance ...
Yet microbial cells in and on the human body can actually outnumber human cells. What we're learning today and over the past decade, is that that sometimes microbes explain more biological trait ...
With its remarkable size and age, Pando dwarfs its fellow inhabitants, holding the potential to be not only the oldest living ...
Fortunately, both narwhals and bowhead whales are subject to federal protections in Canada. At the same time, intense ...
The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...