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Author Archives: Kelle Freel
Shedding light on symbiotic relationships
Lots of critters glow in the dark, but most of them aren’t found in just any back yard…unless that back yard happens to be the beach. The ocean is full of bioluminescent critters that use light to attract prey (possibly … Continue reading
Posted in community ecology, ecology, microbiology, natural history, Symbiosis
Tagged coevolution
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Ask GEVEs
Yikes. This year has been a doozy, and while we all know that the hand on the wall (if you have one of those old fashioned things) that strikes midnight on December 31st will not put out the dumpster fires … Continue reading
A genomic march of the penguins
It’s undeniable that penguins are a marine representative of the charismatic megafauna group. I have an affinity for stuff we need microscopes to see, BUT I agree that penguins are cute (just LOOK at these National Geographic photos…they’re even in … Continue reading
Serendipitous history in the microbial making
It’s been over 100 years since the Dutch Microbiologist Martinus Willem Beijerinck theorized that microbes could oxidize manganese to generate energy for growth. Last week, the first evidence for this theory was published, and you might be surprised about from … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, ecology, genomics, microbiology, transcriptomics
Tagged cultivation, manganese oxidation, serindipity
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Down (Under) The Rabbit Hole
Maybe it’s a wild guess, but most of us have probably learned a little more about viruses lately than we thought we ever would. Little did I know, before this article, that I’d also learn quite a bit about a … Continue reading
A bloom by any other name
Once a year during the spring, when conditions are juuuuust right, phytoplankton are terrible at social distancing. This annual bloom that takes place in the spring from 35º North in the North Atlantic and reaches all the way to the … Continue reading
Posted in community ecology, ecology, microbiology
Tagged microbial communities, phytoplankton
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Of microbes and whales
At the end of January, the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) journal put out a list: “Readers’ Choice: The best of The ISME Journal 2019” . I don’t know about you (my fellow scientists also with 35+ chrome tabs … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, community ecology, ecology, mammals, microbiology
Tagged bowhead, lipidome, microbial communities, wax esters
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The (silent) thunder down under: mud volcanoes and the microbes that love them
One of the most recognized and distributed photographs ever is of the earth taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft 28,000 miles above where you’re reading this, and was named “The Blue Marble“. As the photo implies, our … Continue reading
Posted in community, community ecology, ecology, microbiology
Tagged deep sea, greenhouse gas, methane, mud volcanoes
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