Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson
On the last episode for 2015, Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how soil amoeba hunt nematodes in packs, and the role of mushrooms as rainmakers.
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Links for this episode
- Pack hunting by a common soil amoeba on nematodes (Environ Micro)
- Mushrooms as rainmakers (PLoS One)
- Mushroom by Nicholas Money
- In the Company of Mushrooms by Elio Schaechter
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 118
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Just discovered this nice episode.
Well made and nicely discussed comment on our pack-hunting paper; quick reply to the question what would happen if you add one single amoebae: it would multiply and a clonal pack would do the same thing as observed (they were actually grown from clonal cultures).
But lets say if only one amoeba was existing before trapping the nematode- no idea if that would be able to kill it alone- would be a nice side study!
very interesting hypotheses you came up with, we should study some of it 🙂
Keep on with this great work!
Stefan