This Week in Mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy #109: Pre­ci­sion killing

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The pod­cast about un­seen life on Earth hosted by: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swan­son. 

The TWiM co­hort dis­cusses the use of an­timi­cro­bial pep­tides to tar­get spe­cific bac­te­ria in the mi­cro­biome, and how the in­tra­cel­lu­lar bac­terium Wol­bachia se­lec­tively kills male hosts.

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Links for this episode

• An­timi­cro­bial pep­tides to mod­u­late mi­cro­bial ecol­ogy (PNAS)
• Tar­get­ing spe­cific bac­te­ria in the oral mi­cro­biome (Trends Mi­cro)
• How Wol­bachia kills male hosts (PLoS Biol)
• Wol­bachia phage on TWiV 332
• Let­ters read on TWiM 109

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