Tuesday, July 16, 2013

FOR KIDS: The power of microbes

FOR KIDS: The power of microbes

Bacteria that live in the gut may help define species

Bacteria that live in the gut may help define species

By Stephen Ornes

Web edition: July 15, 2013

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Bugged guts

This is a jewel wasp. New research suggests its species differs from others not only in its genes, but also in the microbes that live in its gut.

Credit: M.E. Clark/Wikimedia Commons

A living animal is never alone. Its body ? like yours ? is home to trillions of microbes, or tiny single-celled organisms. Those microbes aren?t just hitchhiking. They can play an important role in separating species, researchers now report.

S. Milius. ?Gut microbes may put barrier between species.? Science News. July 2, 2013. [Go to]

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351610/title/FOR_KIDS_The_power_of_microbes

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