To gauge the persistence of a microbial signature at a station, buy we sampled one train station (Penn Station) in triplicate every hour on the hour during a weekday. We found that certain taxa are prevalent at every time point, discount yet a high degree of fluctuation was observed in some genera over the course […]

The station with the most unique bacteria was the South Ferry Station on the ‘‘1’’ subway line in Manhattan. This was the only station completely flooded during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, healing and it has been closed since that time. Notably, price we observe ten unique species of bacteria that were present in the single […]