255: Fleaing The Plague

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TWiM reveals a study showing that positive interactions among bacteria are far more common than previously thought, and how acquisition of a single gene enabled</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yersinia pestis</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to expand the range of mammalian hosts that sustain flea-borne plague.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi7159"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Positive interaction</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi7159">s</a> are common among bacteria (Sci Adv)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Expansion of mammal hosts for <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009995"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">flea-borne plague</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(PLoS Path)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Hurling fleas (<a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/twim/80-hurling-fleas-and-designer-chromosomes/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TWiM #80</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></li> </ul>