TWiM #98: Bacteria and eukaryotes get horizontal
- Author
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- Thu 19 Feb 2015
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twimshow/TWiM098.mp3
The TWiM crew ponders the question of how a bacterium finds its middle when dividing, then divulge the transfer of interbacterial antagonism genes to eukaryotes, where they may function in innate defense.
Links for this episode:
Size independent symmetric division (Nat Commun)
How does a bacterium find its middle? (Nat Struct Biol)
Genes transferred from bacteria augment eukaryotic defenses (Cell)
Antibacterial gene transfer (eLife)
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