The TWiMmers get cozy with symbionts: the bacteria that allow a giant shipworm to oxidize sulfur, and algae that live within salamander cells.

Hosts: 

Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

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Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe 2017

• Chemoautotrophic symbiosis in giant shipworm (PNAS)

• There's gold in them hills (TWiM 97)

• Vertebrate-algal symbiosis (eLife)

• Letters read on TWiM 152

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