The TWiM hosts and associated microbiomes review a fungus destroying salamanders in Europe, and genes for flagella in intracellular bacteria.

Hosts: 

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

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Links for this episode

• Fungus killing fire salamanders (Nature)

• Chlamydia with flagella (ISME J)

• Flagellar movement in rickettsia (PLoS One)

• Image credit

• Letters read on TWiM 162

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