276: Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream
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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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- 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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