Group-living spiders majorly get their microbiome by feeding on the vomit of their surrounding adults and other social interactions.
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How can Snowy Sheathbills help us discover and track viruses circulating the world?
How does temperature affect the composition of the gut microbiome in hibernating bats?
To prevent rabies spillover to humans, scientists look into developing a transmissible vaccine for bats using a herpes virus.
Bees got buzz on the brain thanks to their gut microbiome!
Ground squirrels are known to hold on to long periods of hibernation through the strategic help of ureolytic bacteria. Here’s the why and how this connection is important to us.
In a man-made waterbody in the ground there lived a bacterium. A nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell… The protagonist of this story is a cyanobacterium.
Determining the causal link between diseases and microbiota is still a challenge in microbiota research. But animal models […]