Nonia Pariente
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Editor in Chief of the #NonProfit, #OpenAccess journal @plosbiology.org Former Chief Editor of Nature Microbiology.
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#Virologist. #Feminist. #Spaniard in the UK. #Galician. #European always.
Views my own.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-5683
Indeed you are right and I was being tongue in cheek there, although Kp is I think chiefly Klebsiella pneumoniae. Many are known by the species name (E. coli, S. aureus), some by three letters (Mtb). Not so many by 2 letters.
Crossing kingdoms adds a whole new level of complexity though
Crossing kingdoms adds a whole new level of complexity though
January 16, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Indeed you are right and I was being tongue in cheek there, although Kp is I think chiefly Klebsiella pneumoniae. Many are known by the species name (E. coli, S. aureus), some by three letters (Mtb). Not so many by 2 letters.
Crossing kingdoms adds a whole new level of complexity though
Crossing kingdoms adds a whole new level of complexity though
Reposted by Nonia Pariente
There's also a nice accompanying
Commentry piece by Ezio Rosato: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Commentry piece by Ezio Rosato: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
An emerging clock mechanism in a hydrozoan jellyfish
In hydrozoan jellyfish, the timing of gamete release is often coordinated by light. This primer discusses findings from a recent PLOS Biology article that elucidates a novel, endogenous clock-based me...
dx.plos.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
There's also a nice accompanying
Commentry piece by Ezio Rosato: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Commentry piece by Ezio Rosato: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Thank you! This is a strong part of the @plosbiology.org mission, so it is great to see that we live up to it
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Thank you! This is a strong part of the @plosbiology.org mission, so it is great to see that we live up to it