The microbiome of hibernating bears, and zebrafish as a model for bacterial sepsis feature in this animal-centric episode of TWiM hosted by Vincent, Michael, and Michele.

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

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Links for this episode

• Microbiome of hibernating brown bear and energy metabolism (Cell Rep)
• Ten animals that hibernate (Cons Inst)
• Zebrafish model of sepsis (mSphere)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiM 126

This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and ASM Microbe 2016

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