BacterioFiles 303 - Sticky Skin Sows Cells

Caenorhabditis elegans
By Bob Goldstein, CC BY-SA 3.0

This episode: Roundworms in soil can carry with them bacteria they eat to grow new food, like farmers!

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Show notes:
Microbe of the episode: Equid alphaherpesvirus 1

News item

Journal Paper:
Thutupalli S, Uppaluri S, Constable GWA, Levin SA, Stone HA, Tarnita CE, Brangwynne CP. 2017. Farming and public goods production in Caenorhabditis elegans populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci 114:2289–2294.

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