Episode 318
318: How To Pick a Winner
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, Mark O. Martin.
September 27, 20241h 7m
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Show Notes
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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