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Weird and wonderful microbes - Bacteria

The honey crop - the Holy Grail when antibiotics fail? (November 2011)

The foulbroods of the honeybee (November 2011)

Guarding microbial diversity - the debate continues (Aug 2011)

The bacterial type VI secretion system: on the bacteriophage trail (May 2011)

Type VII secretion and the mycobacterial cell envelope (May 2011)

Moving forward laterally: outer-membrane transport of hydrophobic molecules (May 2011)

The power of hindsight: lessons from plague (Feb 2011)

Leishmania as a re-emerging pathogen (Feb 2011)

Tuberculosis: forgotten but not gone (Feb 2011)

Microbial community chat (Nov 2011)

Social interactions in a unicellular world (Nov 2011)

A natural solution: how bacterial communities can help clean up oil spills (Nov 2011)

Bacterial communities in the gut (and the consequences of upsetting them) (Nov 2011)

Cyanobacteria (May 2010)

Using modelling to understand protein localization in bacteria (February 2010)

NamesforLife: BrowserTool takes expertise out of the database and puts it right in the browser (February 2010)

Can I catch MRSA from playing sport? (August 2009)

Antibiotics and Streptomyces: the future of antibiotic discoverys (February 2009)

Look who’s talking! (Antibiotics as signalling molecules) (February 2009)

Bacterial sequences in an invertebrate genome (November 2008)

An inside job: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (November 2008)

S. aureus: a 'superbug' (February 2008)

A lifelong commitment to bowel bacteria (February 2008)

Gamma interferon - key, but not sufficient for protection against TB? (November 2007)

An introduction to the actinobacteria (May 2007)

Streptomyces: not just antibiotics (May 2007)

Good, bad, but beautiful: the weird and wonderful actinobacteria (May 2007)

Corynebacteria: the good guys and the bad guys (May 2007)

The mycobacteria (May 2007)

Species (November 2006)

Taxonomic parameters revisited: tarnished gold standards (November 2006)

Investigating a bacterial killer using atomic force microscopy (August 2006)

Bacterial swarming: a tale of physics and genetics (May 2006)

Bacteria in cancer therapy (Aug 2005)

Bugs within bugs: symbiotic bacteria in garden insects (May 2005)

Soil microbes and the war on garden weeds (May 2005)

Bacterial populations adapt (November 2004)

Catabolic plasmids: fast-track bacterial evolution (November 2004)

Escherichia coli: model and menace (August 2004)

The history of E. coli K-12 (August 2004)

Now they eat them, now they don't: phagocytes and Borrelia burgdorferi in Lyme disease (Nov 2003)

Tick-borne relapsing fever in Tanzania (Nov 2003)

Emerging bartonellosis (Nov 2003)

How bacteria exchange genetic material (May 2003)

Luminous marine bacteria make fish glow (Nov 2002)

New light on microbial phototrophs (Aug 2001)

Purple and green sulphur bacteria (Aug 2001)

Light-harvesting by purple bacteria (Aug 2001)

Cyanobacteria - ecology, adaptation and genomics (Aug 2001)

How do cyanobacteria glide? (Aug 2001)

Nanobacteria - miniature organisms or myth? (Nov 2000)

Unculturable bacteria - the iceberg of biodiversity? (Nov 2000)

How do molecules cross bacterial membranes? (May 1999)

Back to the basics of bacterial classification? (May 1999)

Last updated 28 November 2011