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TWiM reviews discovery of a bacterium that is visible to the naked eye, and reversible resistance to bacteriophage by shedding of the bacterial cell wall.
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- A bacterium that is not a microbe (Science)
- Overwhelming microbial greatness (TWiM 261)
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- Bacteriophage resistance by shedding cell wall (Open Biol)
- Who came first, monderms or diderms? (Nat Ecol Evol)
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