Adventure Travel Guide to the Microbial World

We are a group of faculty and first year graduate students who are embarking on a travel expedition into the microbial world.  Check this site for a description of what we learn and see along the journey.   You can also follow us on Twitter!  @ClassMicro

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The Insect Apocalypse Is Here: Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees.

There is a rather wonderful episode of the hit BBC show ‘Doctor Who,’ where David Tennant’s rendition of The Doctor suggests that the Bees aren’t actually dying off, but they are an alien species leaving of their own accord. Alas, Erick et al. suggest, rather more empirically than The Doctor, that the former condition is the reality; the bees are dying off. (1)