...Tricky Gram-neg­a­tives Await­ing Ge­netic Ma­nip­u­la­tion by Marco Alle­mann — Mem­bers of the bac­te­r­ial phy­lum Planc­to­mycetes (click here and here) in­habit a wide va­ri­ety of en­vi­ron­ments through­out the world. What makes them spe­cial is that in the mind of some in­ves­ti­ga­tors they pos­sess a mix of eu­kary­otic and prokary­otic struc­tural at­trib­utes. Now that is some­thing pretty unique and worth…