by Elio — Un­like warthogs, likely to be con­sid­ered beau­ti­ful only by their mother, the Ver­ru­comi­cro­bia (ver­ruca means "wart, thus the warty bac­te­ria; more about this later) have con­sid­er­able ap­peal, be it mor­pho­log­i­cal, phys­i­o­log­i­cal, or eco­log­i­cal. This is yet an­other phy­lum that owes its recog­ni­tion to nu­cleic acid tech­nol­ogy. Al­though few of its mem­bers…