476: Bamboo Breakdown Benefits Beetle Babies

BacterioFiles by Jesse Noar

Mar 13, 202311:14Science & Medicine

This episode: Beetles inoculate bamboo with a fungus that consumes the bamboo sugars to feed the beetle larvae! Download Episode (7.7 MB, 11.2 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Saccharomyces cerevisiae virus L...

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