482: Colony Concentric Clock Construction

<p>This episode: Single-celled bacteria can act independently to create patterns and structure in their biofilm communities!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BF482.mp3">Download Episode</a></span> (9.6 MB, 14.0 minutes)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Show notes:</span><br /> Microbe of the episode: <em>Dictyostelium discoideum</em> Skipper virus<em><br /></em></p> <p><a href= "https://phys.org/news/2022-01-simple-bacteria-elaborate-patterns.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News item</a></p> <div><strong>Takeaways</strong></div> <div> <div> <div> <div>Large multicellular organisms like us have interesting mechanisms for using one set of genetic instructions present in all cells to form a large, complex community of many different types of cells with different structures and functions, all working together. Single-celled microbes do not have the same requirements for genetic or structural complexity, but they do ...