231: It’s a microbe-eat-microbe world

This Week in Microbiology

English - December 10, 2020 23:10 - 54 minutes - 38.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 492 ratings
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Space Station biomining (Nat Comm) Reductive evolution in a predatory bacterium (bioRxiv)

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