TWiM #120: Snakes in trouble

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Elio Schaechter.

Vincent and Elio marvel in the finding that a phage tail-like structure from a marine bacterium stimulates tubeworm metamorphosis, and reveal Ophidiomyces as a cause of snake fungal disease.

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• Tubeworm metamorphosis by phage tail-like structures (Science)
• Cell enzyme becomes viral capsid protein (virology blog)
• Snake fungal disease in the laboratory (mBioi)
• Snake fungal disease in cottonmouths (PLoS Biol)
• Snake fungal disease (pdf)
• Image credit

This episode is sponsored by ASM Grant Writing Institute Online Webinar and 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium

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