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This month's Genome Watch explores the effect that recombination can have on the interpretation of outbreak investigations, and the far-reaching consequences for genomic diversity in bacterial species.
In this Microbiology Pioneers Essay, Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia pays tribute to two pioneers of fungal cell ultrastructure, Manfred Girbardt and Charles Bracker.
S. Craig Cary and Noah Fierer call on microbial ecologists to develop robust strategies for long-term storage and archiving of samples in order to fully develop, and protect, the scientific record.
This month's Genome Watch highlights recent examples of the major contributions that genomics has made to new biological discoveries in malaria parasites.