Lake Mendota in Wisconsin is transformed by the changing seasons – covered by ice in winter, and by algae in summer – and a new study shows how these cyclical shifts are putting the lake's bacteria ...

The team analyzed genetic material from microbes in a one-of-a-kind archive of water samples collected over 20 years from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. Like Bill Murray in the movie “Groundhog Day,” ...

Like Bill Murray in the movie "Groundhog Day," bacteria species in a Wisconsin lake are in a kind of endless loop that they can't seem to shake. Except in this case, it's more like Groundhog Year.

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A tiny single-celled organism may have a big impact on how the world’s basic chemical building blocks cycle between living things and the non-living environment. Called Polarella, the algal genus was ...

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study ...

Program in Ecology and Evolution Faculty & Emeritus represent many different departments and offer diverse expertise and interests, but all share a core commitment to research and graduate training in ...