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Started a starter pack for the presenters and attendees of the 2025 Animal-Microbe Symbiosis Gordon Research Conference. Let me know if I should add (or remove) you!

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June 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Our lab’s latest paper just came out & I ❤️ it. Look at all the Archaea in wild bird poop that Universal primers miss. Amazing job by @thunterbio.bsky.social!

#birds #archaea #AcademicSky

Archaeal diversity in the microbiomes of 4 wild bird species. Check it out —>
journals.asm.org/eprint/3VYAS...
Figure 2 from linked paper. Relative abundance of archaeal orders and bacterial phyla found using Archaea-Specific and Universal PCR primers. Relative abundance of archaeal orders and bacterial phyla from Anna’s Hummingbird, Canada Goose, Ruddy Turnstone, and Saltmarsh Sparrow was found using Archaea-Specific (top) or Universal (middle and bottom) PCR primers.
March 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM