Ratzke Lab

Environment-mediated interactions cause an externalized and collective memory in bacteria Abstract. Bacteria usually live in complex communities interacting with many other microbial species. These interactions determine who can persist in a com

New paper out in ISMEJ!
Microbes can "remember" their past by modifying their environment. This externalized memory can impact future interactions and community assemblies.
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14.08.2025 07:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Emergent loss of microbial biodiversity with increasing resource diversity The origin of biodiversity is arguably the most fundamental question in ecology - especially how countless microbial species coexist within a single community. A prevailing hypothesis holds that micro...

More resources, less diversity?
Our new preprint reveals that increasing resource diversity can reduce microbial biodiversity—contrary to classical ecological theory.
Luckily, we understood why this happens.
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MicrobialEcology #Biodiversity

16.05.2025 08:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0