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I Contain Multitudes

27 Apr 2022 - 03 Jun 2022
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    • book by Ed Yong
    • All zoology is really ecology
    • Good line!
    • Did not know: eukaryotic cells ancestor was archaea (+ mitochondria from bacteria).
    • Many good stories which I am not going to transcribe.
    • The tsetse fly "tries hard to be a mammal" (live birth to a single grub, which it feeds with something milk-like). p149
    • hologenome – denoting the evolution of host+microbes as a unit, or other kinds of symbiosis – supposed to be a radical idea but seems pretty commonsensical to me.
      • Or not, it hides the conflicts between different organisms.
    • Ch 7 Mutually Assured Success
      • started to talk about biosynthetic pathways (for amino acids) and I perked up and said hey I know about those.
      • Apparently there are 10! amino acids animals can't produce on their own and rely on microbes? That I did not know.
    • Read through Ch 7 then had to go back to library