477: Hijackers Hitchhike on Hyphal Highways

BacterioFiles by Jesse Noar

Mar 27, 202310:19Science & Medicine

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! Download Episode (7.1...

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