I was working on the invasion of my comic Streptomyces forest last week.
An odd mirroring of life and

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To find new you may need to look in crazy, ‘under explored’ places. Like the chest plate of a leafcutter ant in Kenya. This was the home of Streptomyces formicae KY5...

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Day 6 - Sporulation!

Some species of bacteria form spores that can remain dormant for a long time and germinate when conditions are favourable. This is a little Streptomyces Tangela that's making some Streptomyces style spore chains!

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Aaand we are done! I tried to make Streptomyces like these massive skyscrapers with neon antibiotics.

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Petrichor in the park: why does soil smell lovely after it rains? Developmentally regulated volatiles geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol attract a soil arthropod to Streptomyces bacteria promoting spore dispersal....... https://t.co/GU5ahV2KT7 (HM library can obtain text)

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The fourth category of is for the best Photograph! The winner here is... with this fantastic photography of for


https://t.co/j6P91om0kk

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Los camellos son capaces "de oler" el agua a 80km de distancia. La realidad es más bien otra. Huelen la geosmina (que es como se llama al olor de tierra mojada) que producen unas bacterias llamada Streptomyces coelicolor.

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