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TWiM #44: Phage interruptus

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

Vincent, Michael, Elio discuss the role of prophage excision in exit of Listeria from the phagosome, and analysis of bacterial communities in saliva.

Right click to download TWiM #44 (48 MB .mp3, 66 minutes).

Links for this episode:

• Prophage excision promotes Listeria phagosomal escape (Cell)
• Survey of salivary bacterial communities (Genome Res)
• UniFrac (Bioinformatics)
• Listeria image from Tilney and Portnov, 1989
• Letters read on TWiM 044

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