We’ve all seen news stories covering what you eat and how it can affect your microbiome. Changing your diet can shift your unique microbial fingerprint. That shift can cause a dramatic effect on your health. But what about the microbiomes of the plants you …
Next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized genetic data
In the past decade, next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized the way in which genetic data are generated and analyzed. In the field of phylogenetics, this has meant that researchers are rapidly reconstructing the genealogical tree of life, a goal biologists …