- plural of microbe.
microbes
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At the same time, metabolites made exclusively by microbes, including indole-3-propionate and p-cresol sulfate, declined after antibiotic treatment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The second showed that several biologically important metabolites usually credited to gut microbes can also be produced in substantial amounts by mammalian metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
He said it could also add to interest in protecting maerl beds, which were "already of the greatest importance to all of the other plants, animals and microbes in the ecological community that they support".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
At the heart of current research is the oral microbiome, the community of hundreds of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that live in the mouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But farmers are sedentary and live amid their own sewage, thus providing microbes with a short path from one person’s body into another’s drinking water.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
