The Microbe Blog (at http://www.smallthingsconsidered.us)

Elio Schaechter and Merry Youle, fellow writer and editor

No Phosphorus? No Problem! (There's More Than One Way to Skin a Phytoplankton)  

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2009/03/no-phosphorus-no-problemtheres-more-than-one-way-to-skin-aphytoplankton.html

Do you believe that lipids are boring? Try again. Monotonous they are not. There's greater variety to be found among the lipids than almost any other cell constituent.