The TWiM hosts reveal why phosphorus is essential for fungal brain disease, and how bacteria kill local competitors to favor the evolution of public goods cooperation.

Hosts:

Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

Links for this episode

• Phosphate needed for Cryptococcus brain disease (mSphere)

• Type VI killing drives phase separation (Nat Rep)

• Type VI secretion review (Phil Trans Roy Soc)

• Microbial cooperation and conflict (TedX)

• Image credit

• Letters read on TWiM 147

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