TWiM #147: The Public Goods Dilemma
This Week in Microbiology · American Society for Microbiology
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Show Notes
The TWiM hosts reveal why phosphorus is essential for fungal brain disease, and how bacteria kill local competitors to favor the evolution of public goods cooperation.
Hosts:
Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.
Links for this episode-
Phosphate needed for Cryptococcus brain disease (mSphere)
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Type VI killing drives phase separation (Nat Rep)
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Type VI secretion review (Phil Trans Roy Soc)
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Microbial cooperation and conflict (TedX)
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