Worth a read: Is RNA a useful measure of microbial activity?
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A post of interest from Noah Fierer. Let’s say a microbial ecologist wants to identify which bacteria are active in a given environmental sample at a given point in time. For example, you may want to determine which bacteria are active in a desert soil after a large rainfall event. This is often done …