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BacterioFiles 179 - Functionless Phages Feel Fatiguing

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This episode: Defective phages in bacterial genomes can still have burdensome effects! Why do the bacteria keep them around?

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

  • Microbes are essential and important for all life on the planet
  • Modified virus could treat most dangerous brain cancers
  • Microbes help inhibit worms that harm plants (paper)
  • Trying to figure out what gut viruses people had in the 14th century (paper)
  • Beewolves have close hereditary connection with their bacterial symbionts

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