TWiM #168: The lesser of two weevils

This Week in Microbiology

Dickson joins the TWiM team to discuss the nasal microbiota of dairy farmers, and attenuation of bacterial virulence by quorum sensing in the maize weevil.

Hosts:

Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

Guest: Dickson Despommier

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Links for this episode:

• Nasal microbiota of dairy farmers (PLoS One)

• Measuring species richness, diversity, similarity (pdf one, pdf two)

• Quorum sensing attenuates virulence (Cell Host Micr)

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