203: A magnetotactic consortium under the sea
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The TWiM team reveals thousands of small novel genes in the human microbiome, and a mutualistic symbiosis between marine protists covered with magnetosome-containing bacteria.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt
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- Thousands of small novel genesin human microbiome (Cell)
- A magnetotactic consortiumunder the sea (Nat Micro)
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