A fundamental question in biology is how individual cells within a multicellular organism interact to coordinate diverse processes. A University of Wyoming researcher and his Ph.D. students studied ...

Microbes face many physical, chemical and biological challenges from their environments. In response, cells adapt. But whether they do so cooperatively is poorly understood. A University of Wyoming ...

IN studying the biology of myxobacteria I have arrived at the conclusion that this group of micro-organisms is much more widely spread in Nature than it is commonly considered. The morphology and ...

Vera Troselj (left) and Christopher Vassallo, both Ph.D. candidates in UW Professor Dan Wall’s lab at the time of the research, are co-authors of a paper, titled “Rapid Diversification of Wild Social ...

Working with a strain of Myxococcus xanthus, Kaiser and his then graduate student Jerry Kuner had the idea that perhaps the medium was holding them back. They decided to abandon traditional, solid ...

A University of Wyoming faculty member led a research team that discovered a certain type of soil bacteria can use their social behavior of outer membrane exchange (OME) to repair damaged cells and ...

The new research addresses the mechanism of how myxobacteria discriminate and how highly related strains recently diverged, or evolved, into distinct social groups. A fundamental question in biology ...