Editor’s Selections: The smallest bacterial genomes, RNAi to save the bees, and the greenhouse gas methane
August 21st, 2009 Editor's Selections No Comments
I’m Vincent Racaniello, a biology editor at researchblogging.org. Each week I highlight several notable posts from molecular and cellular biology and virology. My musings on viruses, viral disease, and viral vaccines can be found at virology blog.
- Do primary endosymbiotic bacteria, which live their entire lives inside insects, have the smallest bacterial genomes?
- RNAi is being used to determine if Israel acute paralysis virus contributes to honeybee colony collapse disorder.
- The debate about climate change has focused on one polarizing gas: carbon dioxide. But under combined climate change conditions, major crops could show an increase in average methane emitted – a gas that is about 23 times as effective at trapping heat as CO2.
I’ll be back next Friday with more selections.
