This Week in Microbiology

192: A Qtip for phages

Jan 18, 2019 · 1 hr 6 min · Episode 192 · 31.9 MB
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The TWiM team reveals an extremely low rate of mutation in a 2500 year old, 185 acre fungus in Michigan, and how a host-produced quorum sensing autoinducer controls the phage switch between lysis and lysogeny.

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