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BacterioFiles 308 - Predators' Projectile Prototypes

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:09:00
Publish Date: 2017-08-28 00:00:00
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This episode: Eukaryotic ocean microbes have surprisingly diverse and complex ballistic weapons!

Download Episode (8.2 MB, 9 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Mycoplasma arginini Cool videos of microbial weapons firing Journal Paper: Gavelis GS, Wakeman KC, Tillmann U, Ripken C, Mitarai S, Herranz M, Özbek S, Holstein T, Keeling PJ, Leander BS. 2017. Microbial arms race: Ballistic “nematocysts” in dinoflagellates represent a new extreme in organelle complexity. Sci Adv 3:e1602552.

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