Study reveals some secrets of how microbes and their genes traverse the globe
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 08:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers led by MIT's Ilana Brito has discovered some of the ways that certain microbes are able to travel around the world. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they collected samples of microbes from villagers living in Fiji to learn more about the nature of microbe transfer.