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Thanks for your contribution!

It was a tough choice: we really wanted to choose the most hyper mouse but we didn’t have the capacity to run that selection line also. Next time!

It’s a one-sided selection experiment: usually when you select an animal you are selecting on host genome and microbes, here we kept genome constant by breeding the inbred mice separately

Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior Nature Communications - Here, the authors present evidence that the gut microbiome alone, without changes in the host genome, can shape how animals respond to selection, identifying a bacterium and...

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO
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Well we did make it easier for people to bring dogs to work, and the population of institute dogs grew substantially….

She’s better looking than most bacteria I know

So I tried it and it is super impressive. I am really worried though that reviewers will plop papers in here and use the output as their review. I am actually worried it will make passing peer review harder, based on its output of a published paper - thoughts on this?

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

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Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

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@maxplanck.de are we helping with this? Sounds urgent

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Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
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I left a couple in the basement of Biotech. You can probably claim them.

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The Genetic Basis of Bacterial Adaptation to Hosts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.19.665706v1

I reviewed this paper a bit ago and have been waiting for it to come out. A great resource for us Bifidobacteria researchers!

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