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<p>This episode: Bacteriophages can hitch a ride on bacteria they don't infect to travel through soil on fungal filaments, potentially helping their carriers by infecting and killing their competitors!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BF477.mp3">Download Episode</a></span> (7.1 MB, 10.3 minutes)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Show notes:</span><br /> Microbe of the episode: <em><a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.67.8.3702-3706.2001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Epinotia aporema</a></em> <a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.67.8.3702-3706.2001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granulovirus</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211221102739.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News item</a></p> <div><strong>Takeaways</strong></div> <div> <div> <div> <div>For tiny bacteria, partially dry soil can be like a vast system of caverns, with particles of soil separate...