This Week in Microbiology

著者: Vincent Racaniello
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  • This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth.
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  • 318: How To Pick a Winner
    2024/09/27

    TWiM explains how bacterial community structure can be used to predict athletic performance in racehorses, and the idea that a tiny fraction of all species forms most of Nature.

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Mark O. Martin.

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    Links for this episode
    • Microbiome picks a winner (Sci Rep)
    • Picking a Winner by Reading the Form
    • Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
    • How much does it cost to breed a horse?
    • Date of birth and purchase price as foals or yearlings and race performance
    • Rarity as a sticky state (PNAS)
    • How many species on Earth? (PLoS Biol)
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  • 317: Bat White-nose Syndrome
    2024/09/14

    TWiM explains unique modifications in the energy conservation pathways linked to methanogenesis in an Archaeon, and mechanisms of white nose fungal invasion of cells from the Little Brown Bat.

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

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    Links for this episode
    • Methyl-reducing methanogenesis (Nature)
    • Pathogenic strategies of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Science)
    • Adaptive fungal invasion of bat cells (Science)
    • Little brown bat (Critter Catalog)
    • Nature Notes: Little Brown Bat (Harpswell)
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    55 分
  • 316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome
    2024/08/23

    TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacteria of plants.

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

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    Links for this episode
    • Gut microbiota and food addiction (Probiotics)
    • Blautia may have probiotic properties (Gut Microbes)
    • Blautia wexlerae ameliorates obesity and type 2 diabetes (Nat Commun)
    • Phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors (Science)
    • What is a bacteriocin? (Front Micro)
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    56 分

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