TWiM #58: The Brain Microbiome?

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

Vincent, Elio and Michael review how underground mycelial networks carry signals that warn neighboring plants of aphid attack, and the presence of bacteria in the human brain. 

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Comments

[bks]

I wish there were transcripts of these. I would dearly love to listen to the part about parasitoids again, but it's such a hassle to find it. If only it were here in plain text transcription, I could find it in less than three seconds, probably in less than one second. Here's a similar article, in tomato, from 2010
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013324

--bks