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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.
Vincent, Michael, Elio and Michele discuss how an endosymbiont betrays its aphid host to alert plant defenses, and a new immunosuppressive cell that allows infection of neonates.
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- Endosymbiont protein betrays aphid (PNAS)
- Plant immune system (Nature)
- Plant defenses against pathogens (Am Phyt Soc)
- New neonatal defense against infection (Nature)
- Marty Blaser and Bill Maher (YouTube)
- Two days from any village (YouTube)
- Letters read on TWiM 82
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