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TWiM #86: Blurring the Line Between Organelle and Endosymbiont


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

Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele consider whether our eating behavior is manipulated by gastrointestinal microbiota, and an aphid gene of bacterial origin whose gene product encodes a protein that is transported to an obligate endosymbiont.

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Posted on September 19, 2014 at 05:41 AM in This Week in Microbiology |

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