There is increasing interest in the plant microbiome as it relates to both plant health and
agricultural sustainability. One key unanswered question is whether we can select for a plant …

… FRS and SHL phages are approximately 60 and 80 nm in size, respectively, and we thus
presume … Membrane pore size for the unit we used is 10 nm; therefore, smaller phage particles …

… bacterial consortia were prepared by first anaerobically monoculturing bacterial strains in
rich growth media (as previously described [6]) to mid-log phase (optical density at 600 nm of …

… We measured the optical density at 600 nm (OD 600 ) of the overnight culture and plated the
culture on LB agar, incubated overnight at 28C to obtain their CFU counts. The remainder of …

… NM and CY conducted in vitro experiments and analyzed the data. CH conducted and
analyzed data for the in vivo work. NM wrote the manuscript with the exception of the in vivo …

… -type size particles of 27 nm diameter, as determined by TEM (… (20) We found that CP
S37P/N87C formed VLPs of 17 nm … VLPs comprised both 17 and 27 nm sized VLPs, as …

… Thick (0.4 μm) and thin (70 nm) sections were stained with methylene blue and lead citrate,
respectively, then examined and photographed using a Zeiss Labrolux 12 light microscope …

Background Despite the latest advancements in metabolic engineering for genome editing
and characterization of host performance, the successful development of robust cell factories …

The eukaryote immune system evolved and continues to evolve within a microbial world, and
as such is critically shaped by—and in some cases even reliant upon—the presence of host…

Leeches within the Piscicolidae are of great numerical and taxonomic importance, yet little
is known about bacteria that associate with this diverse group of blood‐feeding marine …