Monday 12 December 2016

Each animal species hosts a unique microbial community and benefits from it.

Each animal species hosts a unique microbial community and benefits from it.

Additional experiments with two of the groups -- one mammal and one insect -- demonstrated that individuals possessing their natural microbiota digested food more efficiently and had greater survival than those that were implanted with the microbial communities of closely related species.

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