In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

In anaerobic methane oxidation, methanotrophic archaea degrade methane and form currently unknown compounds that are used as electron donors by sulphate-reducing bacteria. Hydrogen and formate are ...