TWiM #118: Spore-drops keep fallin’ on my head

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson
On the last episode for 2015, Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how soil amoeba hunt nematodes in packs, and the role of mushrooms as rainmakers.
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Links for this episode 

• Pack hunting by a common soil amoeba on nematodes (Environ Micro)


• Mushrooms as rainmakers (PLoS One)


• Mushroom by Nicholas Money


• In the Company of Mushrooms by Elio Schaechter


• Image credit


• Letters read on TWiM 118

This episode is sponsored by ASM Microbe 2016 and ASM Biodefense
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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