Talmudic Question #201
Given that today is the day that the US celebrates Thanksgiving... What is Pseudomonas syringae pv phaseolicola – inhabitants of the green beans used for the traditional casserole – most thankful for?
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Talmudic Question #160
Why are obligate endosymbionts of insects (for example, Buchnera) more often mutualistic but those of vertebrates (for example, Rickettsia) more often parasitic?
Talmudic Question #11
Can you think of any group of living organisms that is not host to some virus?
Talmudic Question #12
by Miguel Vicente — All living creatures are born, grow, reproduce and finally die. Consequently, as many flow without discontinuity from one cell to the next (Escherichia coli in the gut), a number of them do not grow (Salmonella enterica inside some phagosomes), others fail...
Talmudic Question #68
by Mike Rust — Why have the bacterial signaling systems based on histidine and aspartate phosphorylation been abandoned (with some exceptions) in favor of serine/threonine and tyrosine phosphorylation in eukaryotes?
Talmudic Question #122
by David Collins — Do we know of a bacterial taxon that has gone extinct?
Talmudic Question #131
by Nicole Flanagan — Is there any human-associated bacterial species that cannot cause disease if introduced into some site of the body?
