{"id":56400,"date":"2021-06-24T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?p=56400"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:41:09","slug":"uncovering_a_microbiome_mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/uncovering_a_microbiome_mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering a Microbiome Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Boston University College of Arts &amp; Sciences professors are the first researchers to attempt to predict where certain species or groups of soil microbes live around the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/jennifer-bhatnagar\/\">Jennifer Bhatnagar<\/a>, soil microbiologist and assistant professor of Biology, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/michael-dietze\/\">Michael Dietze<\/a>, professor of Earth and Environment, found that it is possible to accurately predict the abundance of different species of soil microbes in different parts of the world. The team recently published their findings in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-021-01445-9\">paper<\/a> titled &#8220;Soil microbiome predictability increases with spatial and taxonomic scale&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <em>Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/why-scientists-are-solving-an-underground-mystery-about-where-certain-soil-microbes-live\/?utm_campaign=the_brink&amp;utm_source=email_20210519_full&amp;utm_medium=2_must_read_1&amp;utm_content=research_lifescience\">article<\/a> on their study in The Brink.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Boston University College of Arts &amp; Sciences professors are the first researchers to attempt to predict where certain species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56401,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56400\/revisions\/56401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}