Bacterial diversity in soils was shaped by ice ages
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 06:31
in Biology & Nature
From a pharmaceutical perspective, few microbes have been as valuable as Streptyomyces: This genus of bacteria is the source of 80 percent of antibiotics in use today. A new study of its distribution in North American soils shows a gradient of diversity that corresponds with latitude and points to the South and Wisconsin as distinctive hotspots.