Life imitating art. Douglas Adams

"I have a very special service for rich people ..."
"Oh yes?" said Ford, "And what's that?"
"I tell them it's OK to rich"....
"You what?" he said....
"It's my big number,... I have a Master's degree in Social Economics and can be very convincing. People love it."

Aww. The thought generates happy feelings in the Liverpool symbiont community!

Well it is different, but was inspired by Margaret's paper. Symbionts were always going to be easier, as they often have active mechanisms for infecting the germ line.

John Jaenike did follow up for mites moving spiroplasma symbionts, which made the same shift (will group-》mel). It worked and he did get heritable transmission in recipient mel at a low rate. Which was very cool.

As an editor, I found them occasionally counter productive- a reviewer would write a thing (e.g fine but iterative) but not write this in the review - so as an editor made decisions harder to justify. Save misconduct, if you want it part of the review process, write it direct to authors.

Rickettsia in the form of Ca Tisiphia is in amoebae and inverts. More widely, rickettsiales are everywhere really (inverts and lots of microeuks).

The Rickettsia is about double 'normal' size. In the plot below, blue lines are insertion sequences locations. Over half the genome. I still find it remarkable this bacterium is able to grow and replicate!

Did the chicken pox vaccination privately when F1 was 10 and hadn't caught it. It is pretty unpleasant as a disease in adults.... (I got it at 17 yeuch)

Symbiont genomes are generally small, losing content. However, mobile element proliferation occasionally drives genome expansion. Is this a chance thing? Emily observed coinfecting symbionts with greatly enlarged genomes (via distinct mobile elements) implying an underlying driver of expansion. 2/2

Your salamanders (and their algae) featured in my year 1 intro to ecology lecture on symbiosis!

You could try the continuous plankton recording project, who have been archiving material for a long time. www.cprsurvey.org/services/int...

Many FTSE companies are UK registered but international in activity, so impacted well beyond just UK-US tariffs.

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Hi Nancy, you can find symbiosis posts on the #Symbiosky feed/tag. Great to see you here!