TWiV 391: Whiter reefs, fresh breath
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Alan Dove, and\xa0Rich Condit
Guests:\xa0David Pride\xa0and\xa0Forest Rohwer
If you have always wanted to know what coral reefs and the human oral cavity have in common, listen as guests David Pride and Forest Rohwer talk about their work on the microbiomes and viromes of these two environments, and you'll also understand why mucus is cool.
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Links for this episode- Lytic to temperate switching\xa0of viral communities (Nature)
- Viromes in\xa0ancestral holobiont Hydra\xa0(PLoS One)
- Phage in\xa0human oral cavity\xa0(J Oral Micro)
- Human oral viruses\xa0are personal, consistent, gender specific (ISME)
- Video of this episode at YouTube
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Weekly Science PicksAlan\xa0-\xa0Vax Pack Hero
Rich\xa0-\xa0Helicopter autorotation
Vincent\xa0-\xa0Live in Our Phage World by Forest Rohwer,\xa0Merry Youle, Heather Maughan, Nao Hisakawa
Matt\xa0-\xa0Experiment.com
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