This Week in Microbiology (TWiM) #10: A symbiotic cloaking device

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Dickson Despommier, Margaret McFall-Ngai, and Elio Schaecter

On episode #10 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Margaret, Elio, Michael and Dickson discuss the symbiosis between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and the luminous, gram-negative bacterium Vibrio fischeri.

Right click to download TWiM #10 (47 MB, .mp3, 68 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• V. fisheri factors that trigger squid tissue development (Science)
• Transcriptional patterns of the Vibrio-squid diel rythmn (PNAS)
• The Hawaiian bobtail squid (Microbeworld)
• Microbes pull strings in the human body (ScienceNews)
• Letters read on TWiM #10

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