#ec k12

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say hi to my new children!!!

theres a Cells at Work spinoff manga called Bacteria at Work about anthropomorphized microbes in the gut microbiome. unfortunately it sucks ass so im gonna make my own.

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i swear my comic (which will exist eventually) is not just going to be about gay people ! but this too is yaoi

sources:

b. theta/m. smithii shipfic (evidence for mutualistic relationship in the gut microbiome)

b. theta/m. smithii lab AU (basically you can cultivate m. smithii without a fancy expensive setup by coculturing it with b. theta)

c. minuta/m. smithii (screenshot in the third image)

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i love my bacterial children

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ouuhgh syntrophic girlfriends....

is it gay if your prototrophic facultative anaerobe neighbor gives cysteine to your auxotrophic obligate anaerobe ass after consuming the monosaccharides released by your glycoside hydrolases and respiring oxygen to create a favorable anaerobic environment ?!?

e. coli and b. longum are wlw bc i said so (based on this e. coli/b. bifidum preprint, which im gonna headcanon onto b. longum since it also degrades 2'FL and requires cysteine like b. bifidum)

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who gave her the fucking shiga toxin !!!!!