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BacterioFiles 246 - Prowling Protist Predator Packs

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This episode: Amoebas in soil gang up on and eat much larger roundworms!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper
Video of amoebas eating worm
Discussion on This Week in Microbiology

Other interesting stories:

  • Fungi living inside plants produce potential anticancer compound (paper)
  • Local bacteria help protect and nurture crops in Nigeria (paper)
  • Squished bacteria grow as pancake-shaped cells (paper)
  • Bacteria living in fungi that help plants have many genes taken from their hosts (paper)
  • Engineering yeast that produce opiates cheaply

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