BacterioFiles
The podcast for microbe lovers: reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, and sometimes even eukaryotic microbes and viruses.
Episodes
This episode: Trends of declining lichen populations and biocrust cover overall match trends of increasing temperatures in Colorado dryland!
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Microbe of the episode: Cherry chlorotic rusty spot associated partitivirus
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This episode: A virus partners with a parasitoid wasp to help exploit fruit fly victims!
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Microbe of the episode: Actinomadura livida
This episode: Many organisms produce the smell of earth, geosmin, and many others can sense it–but why?
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Microbe of the episode: Acidianus spindle-shaped virus 1
This episode: Slime mold amoebas Fonticula alba have interesting and unique foraging and reproductive behaviors!
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Microbe of the episode: Cajanus cajan Panzee virus
This episode: A probiotic strain of E. coli can target and destroy pathogens that survive a treatment of antibiotics!
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Microbe of the episode: Streptomyces griseoruber
This episode: Incorporating light-absorbing molecules into bacterial membranes can allow bacteria to use solar energy to transform nitrogen gas into fertilizer!
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Microbe of the episode: Wheat dwarf virus
This episode: A marine protist predator traps prey microbes in an attractive bubble of mucus, eats what it wants, and lets the rest sink, possibly sequestering significant amounts of carbon!
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Microbe of the episode: Bat associated cyclovirus 1
This episode: Certain phages in the gut are linked with increases in performance on some cognitive tests!
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Microbe of the episode: Streptomyces bikiniensis
This episode: Adding tags to proteins to increase their degradation can help engineered bacteria grow and survive better under various conditions!
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Microbe of the episode: Lactococcus virus sk1
This episode: Single-celled bacteria can act independently to create patterns and structure in their biofilm communities!
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Microbe of the episode: Dictyostelium discoideum Skipper virus
This episode: Gene transfers between viruses and eukaryotes have happened many times throughout evolutionary history!
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Microbe of the episode: Mycoplasma subdolum
This episode: Human-based food used as bait by hunters can reduce bears' gut microbe diversity!
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Microbe of the episode: Actinomadura verrucosospora
This episode: Simple microscopic animals can survive extreme radiation by ejecting damaged cells that might otherwise become cancer!
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Microbe of the episode: Helleborus net necrosis virus
This episode: How family members share gut microbes across multiple generations!
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Microbe of the episode: Dyozetapapillomavirus 1
This episode: Bacteriophages can hitch a ride on bacteria they don't infect to travel through soil on fungal filaments, potentially helping their carriers by infecting and killing their competitors!
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Microbe of the episode: Epinotia aporema granulovirus
This episode: Beetles inoculate bamboo with a fungus that consumes the bamboo sugars to feed the beetle larvae!
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Microbe of the episode: Saccharomyces cerevisiae virus L-BC (La)
Video: Lizard beetle laying its egg
This episode: New techniques allow specific modifications in certain members of a complex community of microbes, without isolating them in pure culture first!
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Microbe of the episode: Tomato golden mosaic virus
This episode: Predatory bacteria could protect lobster farms from disease-causing bacteria!
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Microbe of the episode: Gordonia rubripertincta
This episode: A bacteriophage that overcomes the bacterial CRISPR/Cas immune system by interrupting the CRISPR DNA with its own genome!
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Microbe of the episode: Wenzhou mammarenavirus
This episode: Bacteria can use blobs of disordered proteins to quickly adapt to new conditions!
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Microbe of the episode: Drosophila melanogaster Micropia virus
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