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Microbial Advent Calendar – 03 Reindeer Microbiome

Santa Claus is often associated with his flying reindeer pulling his sled through the Christmas night. The story apparently comes from the 1837 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore. The poem describes the original magical reindeer, but Rudolf would only be added in 1939 by Robert…
Adrien
December 3, 2017
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Microbial Advent Calendar – 02 Ursidibacteria

Today in our Microbial advent calendar, we showcase Ursidibacter maritimus and Ursidibacter arcticus,  two non motile gram negative bacteria isolated from the oral cavity of brown and polar bears! Would you go swab that?   The original paper is there.
Adrien
December 2, 2017
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Microbial Advent Calendar – 01 Snowmaking Bacteria

This year I have decided to try to do a series of fun little posts entitled Microbial Advent Calendar over the course of December. Until Christmas I will try to come up with random microbial facts cetered around various Christmas, cold and winter themed topics. Snow and Christmas are two…
Adrien
December 1, 2017
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