The TWiM holobionts pay tribute to Stuart Levy, and reveal the remarkably diverse array of cyclic nucleotides synthesized by bacteria that likely mediate interactions with animal and plant hosts.

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Links for this episode:

• Stuart Levy, Antibiotic Resistance Researcher, Dies
• Resistance fighter (The Scientist)
• Stuart Levy on TWiM 16
• Stuart Levy on Meet the Scientist episode 17
• Segregation of R factors (Nature)
• Infectious drug resistance (Sci Am)
• Spread of antibiotic resistance chickens to humans (Nature)
• Costs of antimicrobial resistance (Clin Inf Dis)
• Bacteria synthesize diverse nucleotide signals (Nature)

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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