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Cool Video of Bacteria Riding the Fungal Highway.

Michael Newby

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Came across a cool article in Scientific American that had a neat video of bacteria cruising around in the water film coating fungal hyphae.

The article itself is a quick read but it links to another article that goes into more depth about what is happening and how they think it has affected bacterial systems in the soil.

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This video really tied the concept of fungal hyphae and no tilling together for me. Thank you.

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This is truly amazing! I'm not that interested in bacterial sex habits, but the speed that they travel along the surface is awesome! The article does say that they use the fungal network more when the soil is less easy to travel through.

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