463: Selectively Stimulating Cell Squatters

<p>This episode: Bacteria produce a compound that causes a phage lurking in the genome of a competing species to wake up and start killing that competitor!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BF463.mp3">Download Episode</a></span> (8.2 MB, 12.0 minutes)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Show notes:</span><br /> Microbe of the episode: <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire_ebolavirus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zaire ebolavirus</a></p> <div> </div> <div><a href= "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210610135621.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News item</a><br /> <div> </div> <div> <div><strong>Takeaways</strong></div> <div> <div> <div>Some bacteriophages infect and immediately destroy their hosts in a burst of new viruses, while others can be stealthier, integrating their genome into the genome of the host and remaining there quietly even over multiple generations of the bacteria. When something ...