257: I have one word for you: plastics

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of TWiM, how phages prevent other phages from invading their hosts without blocking their own reproduction, and plastic-degrading potential of microbes across the Earth.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prophages encode phage-defense systems with</span> <a href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34597593/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">cognate self-immunity</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Cell Host Microbe)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(21)00466-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1931312821004662%3Fshowall%3Dtrue"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Prophages self-destruct</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to eliminate competitors (Cell Host Microbe)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02155-21"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Plastic-degrading potential</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">across global microbiome (mBio)</span></li> </ul> <p><a href= "https://www.envmedia.org/article/plastic-foods/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Plastics</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">in our foods (ENV media)</span></p>