This Week in Microbiology

291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth


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TWiM explains how photoferrotrophic bacteria initiated plate tectonics over 2500 million years ago, and how two bacteria work together to cause childhood tooth decay.

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Links for this episode
  • Bacteria initiated plate tectonics (Geophys Res Lett)
  • Medea hypothesis (Sci Am)
  • Earth’s ferrous wheel (Nature)
  • The Great Dying (Nova)
  • The Great Oxidation Event (ASM)
  • Banded iron formations (EarthSphere)
  • S. sputigena and tooth decay (Nat Comm)
  • Acid tolerance mechanisms of S. mutans (Fut. Micro.)
  • Halitosis patients' tongue biofilm (Microbiol. Open)
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