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Monday Micro – extremophiles & 50 shades of … immunity! - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 11, 2013 •

• adaptive immunity,
• extremophile,
• fifty shades,
• G. sulphuraria,
• Galdieria,
• Gerald Schönknecht,
• gut microbiota,
• HGT,
• horizontal gene transfer,
• immune response,
• innate immunity,
• Japan,
• Michael Criscitiello,
• microbes,
• Nature,
• Paul de Figueiredo,
• PLOS Pathogens,
• Science,
• seaweed,
• Wei-Hua Chen,
• Zobellia,
• Zobellia galactanivorans

In last week’s Monday Micro I mentioned horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the process by which bacteria acquire new genes from other microbes in their environment. HGT is one of the primary ways that genes for antibiotic resistance are able to spread between different bacteria. It is also how plenty of bacteria pick up genes for things … Read More