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… The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team … of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the … paper is the first one to survey a huge amount of natural diversity and say, ‘Yeah, there are genes out there that …

… right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so … We’re looking at a schematic of different pathways in a microbial cell, it looks like. It could be a eukaryotic … I’m looking at it with, you know, it’s within a species or microbial population, you have some set of shared traits …