TWiM #98: Bacteria and eukaryotes get horizontal
This Week in Microbiology · American Society for Microbiology
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Show Notes
The TWiM crew ponders the question of how a bacterium finds its middle when dividing, then divulge the transfer of interbacterial antagonism genes to eukaryotes, where they may function in innate defense.
Links for this episode:
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Size independent symmetric division (Nat Commun)
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How does a bacterium find its middle? (Nat Struct Biol)
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Genes transferred from bacteria augment eukaryotic defenses (Cell)
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Antibacterial gene transfer (eLife)
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