5 of the Coolest Partnerships Between Animals and Bacteria

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This Valentine’s Day, send a little love to your bacterial buddies! Our microbes keep us healthy, but some bacteria give their animal companions superpowers, like immunity to poison, or even invisibility! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Aphids https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ento.43.1.17 http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/Aphids.html https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/barley/aphid-feeding-damage-cereal-crops https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974440/ https://books.google.ca/books?id=FzBs_QgihRIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1042/BC20070135 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105579039790419X https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041126/ https://www.pnas.org/content/109/20/E1230/1 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/12265071.2001.9647599 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgam1955/42/1/42_1_17/_article/-char/ja/ Desert woodrats https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/57/4/723/3896233?guestAccessKey=1d5fd2a3-f361-4f95-85b2-6fba5419fa2d https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.12329 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081%5B2067:IDITTC%5D2.0.CO%3B2 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01165/full https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ToxProfiles/tp85-c4.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/1378444?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081%5B2067:IDITTC%5D2.0.CO%3B2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1954740 Clams https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC21444/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772000.2016.1252438 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00569130 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro1992 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-014-1165-3 http://www.whoi.edu/feature/history-hydrothermal-vents/pdf/PLonsdaleDSRv24.pdf https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2164-9-585 Blue-ringed octopus https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2017/03/13/the-blue-ringed-octopus-small-but-deadly/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00391147 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animal-guide-blue-ringed-octopus/2177/ http://www.sfjo-lamer.org/la_mer/22-3_4/maruyama_noguchi.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166445X1830465X https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857372/ Bobtail squid https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(08)01137-8.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-003-1285-3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843225/ https://www.pnas.org/content/102/8/3004.short Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B7_(17341041222).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2012.10.19.-25-Mannheim_Vogelstang-Blattlaeuse.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Journal.pbio.0050126.g001.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L-Tryptophan_-_L-Tryptophan.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schizaphis_graminum_usda_(cropped).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_Packrat_(Neotoma_lepida)_eating_a_peanu_01.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creosote-Bush_(4485551500).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mojave_vista.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1st_Place_-_Spring_Storm_in_the_Great_Basin_(7186595011).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_Packrat_(Neotoma_lepida)_in_a_Century_Plant_(Agave_americana).JPG https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20371479442/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Champagne_vent_white_smokers.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muscheln_mit_Sipho_Nahaufnahme.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bubbles_hires.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hawaiian_Bobtail_squid.tiff https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euprymna_scolopes,_South_shore_of_Oahu,_Hawaii.tiff
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