The TWiM team describe the involvement of a microbiome in snail metamorphosis, and using Listeria to kill tumors.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

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Links for this episode

• Infectious diseases after Florence (Med Inf Dis)
• Cryptic niche switching in gastropod (Proc Roy Soc B)
• Metamorphosis then no eating (NY Times)
• Listeria promotes tumor rejection (PNAS)
• Image credit
• LADD pathway (jpg)
• LADD (Aduro Biotech)
• Crawling cells and comet tails (YouTube)
• Letters read on TWiM 168

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