TWiM #86: Blurring the line between organelle and endosymbiont

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. 

Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele consider whether our eating behavior is manipulated by gastrointestinal microbiota, and an aphid gene of bacterial origin whose gene product encodes a protein that is transported to an obligate endosymbiont. 

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Links for this episode

• National Biosafety Stewardship month
• Aphid gene of bacterial origin (Curr Biol)
• Eroding symbiont/organelle distinction (Curr Biol)
• Is our eating manipulated by our microbiota? (Bioessays)
• Road to microbial endocrinology (STC)
• Microbial endocrinology (STC)
• Letters read on TWiM 86

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