microbe
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In other words, these microbes may help maintain balance within the broader gut ecosystem.
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Eating plant fed insects could also have introduced beneficial gut microbes that later supported digestion of vegetation.
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These conditions expanded flooded landscapes, which are ideal environments for microbes that produce methane.
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Aristilde and her team have spent years studying how minerals and soil microbes influence whether carbon remains trapped or is released back into the atmosphere.
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This enormous and constantly changing community of microorganisms is shaped by countless chemical exchanges, both among the microbes themselves and between microbes and the human body.
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