TWiM #147: The Public Goods Dilemma

The TWiM hosts reveal why phosphorus is essential for fungal brain disease, and how bacteria kill local competitors to favor the evolution of public goods cooperation.

Hosts: 

Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

• Phosphate needed for Cryptococcus brain disease (mSphere)

• Type VI killing drives phase separation (Nat Rep)

• Type VI secretion review (Phil Trans Roy Soc)

• Microbial cooperation and conflict (TedX)

• Image credit

• Letters read on TWiM 147

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