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Category Archives: Microbial Dark Matter
Aerobic and Anaerobic Metabolism: A Symmetry
The symmetry between aerobic carbohydrate respiration and photosynthesis is widely appreciated. In the presence of Oxygen, many living things (including photosynthesizers) burn carbohydrates, producing useful energy and CO2. Photosynthesizing creatures, using the energy of sunlight, manufacture carbohydrates from CO2 for … Continue reading
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The other 90 (or 95) Percent
We think of ourselves as finely tuned orchestras of cells. We have brain cells to make us smart, liver cells to buffer our indulgences, and immune cells to fight off invaders. These cells are US. They have our uniquely human DNA. … Continue reading
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Virus and Veins
Whether Ebola infects the blood tube walls directly or causes an immune response that damages them, one of the advanced symptoms is leakage of blood from the tubes or vessels. We know even less about the red blotch virus that … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Extinctions, Microbial Dark Matter, Red Blotch Disease, RGBaV
Tagged Red Blotch, Red Blotch Disease, Red Vein Virus
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Stigma, The Scarlet Letter, and The Red Blotch
In the highly competitive business of marketing wine, consumer perception is everything and nobody wants to admit their vineyards have problems. This fear has slowed research into the habits of a virus now known to cause Red Blotch Disease. It is not such … Continue reading
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Tagged Scarlet Letter R, Stigma
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Grape Vine Red Blotch Associated Virus
Ebola is on our minds, but we easily forget that the biosphere is a churning cauldron of microbes whose tenure on the planet extends back several billion years. They live deep in the earth’s crust. They live in the mesosphere. … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizen Science, GRBaV, Red Blotch Disease
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YGBFkiddinme, Low Emissions Grass?
From Nature Magazine this pearl of pulchritude: “The solution, says Michael Peters, an agronomist at CIAT and leader of the team that has developed the low-emissions grass, is to encourage ammonium to persist in the soil for longer, by suppressing microbial … Continue reading
The Dim Sum, Microbial Dark Matter and Wine Dark Seas
The oceans are a microbial soup I like to call the Dim Sum. It is an appropriate pun because it is both dim in the sense we don’t understand it, and a dim sum in that we cannot describe it mathematically. The … Continue reading
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