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Wolbachia is part of the Rickettsiales, the whole clade is composed of obligate intracellular bacteria. All of them? Not exactly! For day 10 of the #MicrobialAdventCalendar, we focus on a Paramecium parasite which is growing outside its host! More: https://t.co/wq0deOMMqa
#Microbiomes : Gustavo Brigante @eenoramic illustrates for Women's Health Magazine @WomensHealthMag #editorial #health #women #magazine #publishing #article #illustration #artist https://t.co/2abZIkzUKV
Illustration i made for the article "Space Invaders" about microbiomes for @WomensHealthMag via @IllustrationUSA
What to do in microbio lab while waiting for your tubes to incubate for an hour? Do some phone SKETCHING!
We have 42 people so far signed up to participate in this year’s #SecretSerratia! Sign up here for microbial holiday fun! https://t.co/nw4myTx0za
Retrouvez l'univers des #Ressources libres et gratuites en Français #Scratch #Python #RaspberryPi #Microbit sur la nouvelle page des projets: https://t.co/T3rbCkGcp2 #Coding #Programmation #Enfants #Famille
#inktoberday30 - Jolt
The M13 bacteriophage is piezoelectric (applying pressure to it causes it to generate electricity). 6 yrs ago, Scientists genetically modified M13 to generate enough electricity to power an LCD display: https://t.co/zbS0d7LaqI
#inktober #sciart #microbiology
#INKTOBERDAY25 - Prickly
#Viruses can look like they're prickly because of their coat proteins. Most viruses have coat proteins, which form a #capsid that protects their #genome and/or bind to host cells during infection.
#Inktober2018 #sciart #microbiology
#inktoberday24 - Chop
#Bluetongue #virus causes a disease in #sheep, which gives them swollen blue tongues. I'm not making that up! It can also cause abortions and has a high fatality rate in lambs. Less lamb chops - sad times.
#Inktober2018 #sciart #microbiology #scicomm
Modern #microbiology is helping historians answer an age-old question - how did Hannibal cross the Alps with an army of elephants?
https://t.co/LDQfesIh6Z
#inktoberday20 - Breakable
In 17th century Netherlands, a #virus caused crazy speculation in the sale of stripey tulip bulbs, as the stripes weren't always stable. They didn't know that Tulip breaking virus #infection is what makes #tulips stripey.
#Inktober #microbiology #sciart
#inktoberday18 - Bottle
Acidianus bottle-shaped #virus 1 is (unsurprisingly) bottle shaped! It infects #archaea & was found in an acidic hot spring. Its genome encodes 57 potential proteins, only 3 of which are similar to known proteins.
#Inktober2018 #inktober #microbiology
#inktoberday15 – Weak
In ~1% of #Poliovirus infections, the #virus causes muscle weakness and paralysis. Since the widespread chlorination of drinking water, the age of exposure to Poliovirus has increased, increasing the risk of paralysis.
#inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart
#inktoberday14 - Clock
Many physiological processes are affected by our body clocks, or circadian rhythms, including immunity. Some #viruses are able to detect or alter these rhythms to initiate infection at times of lowered immunity.
#inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart
#inktoberday12 – Whale
Pithovirus sibericum is a whale of a #virus at 1.5um long – it’s bigger than some bacteria and can be seen under a light microscope! It was found intact within a 30k yr old Siberian ice core and can still infect amoebas.
#inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart
“Gut microbes constituted a dystopian ecology — helping each other, cannibalising each other, living and dying in an intricate microbial mess.” Uncover the complex webs of the microbiome in the latest instalment from our #food issue. https://t.co/UdSnVBzAcO
#InktoberDay3 - Roasted.
Desert water environments are dominated by particular kinds of #bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), presumably because they can handle the roasting environment and drying out better than other #viruses.
#Inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart
90 yr ago #onthisday, Alexander Fleming discovered the mould that saved millions of lives &changed the world🔬
#DYK that he painted using #microbes? The rare #art-ist's eye helped him to discover the effects of #penicillin
https://t.co/vOpqzr0Zd6
#microbiology #science #medicine
The @StudioTeaBreak Wednesday #ShapeChallenge made me think of #conidia - fungal spores, named after the Greek word for dust...
#sciart #microbiology #fungi