All life - plants, animals, people - depends on peaceful coexistence with a swarm of microbial life that performs vital services from helping to convert food to energy to protection from disease. Now, with the help of a squid that uses a luminescent bacterium to create a predator-fooling light organ and a fish that uses a different strain of the same species of bacteria like a flashlight to illuminate the dark nooks of the reefs where it lives, researchers have observed that gaining a single gene is enough for the microbe to switch host animals........ Read More...
[Source: Animal Science Blog From Biology-blog.com - Posted by FreeAutoBlogger]
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