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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.
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Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.
Guest: Dickson Despommier
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Nasal microbiota of dairy farmers (PLoS One)
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Measuring species richness, diversity, similarity (pdf one, pdf two)
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Quorum sensing attenuates virulence (Cell Host Micr)
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