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Biota and Zika -- Groks Science Show 2016-04-13

by: Charles Lee and Frank Ling

Publication date: 2016-04-13

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Topics: zika, probiotics, microbiology, biota, microbiota, gut, immunity, metabolism, asia-pacific, rio, brazil, epidemic

The evolution of microbial communities (microbiota) and viruses have broad implications on human health and how animals and plants change. On this program, Michael Shapira discusses his work on how microbes shape evolution. Lulan Wang also joins to discuss the mutation of the virus that cause the Zika fever.