TWiM #116: Chewates and coconuts

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson

The TWiMeriti reveal a Brazilian social bee that must cultivate a fungus to survive, and diet-mediated reduction in gut colonization by Candida albicans.

• Bee cultivates fungus to survive (Curr Biol)
• Diet reduces C. albicans gut colonization (mSphere)
• mSphere, a new open-access ASM journal
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiM 116

This episode is sponsored by ASM Biodefense and the 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium.

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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