Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter
Vincent, Elio and Michael discuss fungi that use pheromones to trap nematodes, and how genes obtained from marine bacteria help gut bacteria degrade algal carbohydrates.
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Links for this episode:
- Nematode-trapping fungi sense pheromones (Curr Biol)
- Gut bacteria catabolize red seaweed glycans with genes from marine microbes (PNAS)
- Fecal transplants in the good old days (S Falkow)
- A safe hospital room of the future
- Letters read on TWiM 057
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