276: Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream

This Week in Microbiology

TWiM presents evidence that over half of human pathogenic diseases are impacted by climate change, and considers how a novel prokaryote discovered next to an underground stream illuminates the pathway to multicellularity.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Mark Martin.

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Links for this episode

• Climate change and pathogenic diseases (Nat Climate Change)
• Impacts of climate change on human diseases (MoraLAB)
• Cave bacteria illuminate pathway to multicellularity (eLife)
• Commentary on novel cave bacteria (eLife)
• Karst landscapes (National Park Service)
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