Selfish Gene Warfare (Season 3: Episode 27)

Get ready for alarm-ringing bacteria, dark comets, weaponized introns for inter-viral competition, random walks in R, and taxonomic names in R markdown. Science On.

References:

• Pneumococcal competence is a populational health sensor driving multilevel heterogeneity in response to antibiotics
• The dynamical origins of the dark comets and a proposed evolutionary track
• An intron endonuclease facilitates interference competition between coinfecting viruses
• JuliaHub Newsletter July 2024
• Exploring Random Walks with TidyDensity in R

R Packages:

• glam: Generalized Additive and Linear Models (GLAM)
• taxnames: Formatting Taxonomic Names in Markdown