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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Guests: David Pride and Forest Rohwer
If you have always wanted to know what coral reefs and the human oral cavity have in common, listen as guests David Pride and Forest Rohwer talk about their work on the microbiomes and viromes of these two environments, and you'll also understand why mucus is cool.
Links for this episode
- Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities (Nature)
- Viromes in ancestral holobiont Hydra (PLoS One)
- Phage in human oral cavity (J Oral Micro)
- Human oral viruses are personal, consistent, gender specific (ISME)
- Video of this episode at YouTube
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