Sentences with phrase «bacterial communities within»

When kittens were fed nutritionally complete diets of differing protein content, the bacterial communities within the faeces were significantly different between the two diet groups.

Understanding the forces that shape variation in host - associated bacterial communities within - and between host species is key to understanding the evolution and maintenance of metaorganisms.

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In a 1967 paper published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Margulis suggested that mitochondria and plastids — vital structures within animal and plant cells — evolved from bacteria hundreds of million of years ago, after bacterial cells started to collect in interactive communities and live symbiotically with one another.

The research focus within the medical community has increasingly centered on the human intestine and its bacterial population, the so - called microbiome, especially in neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis.

Effects of nutrient loading on sediment bacterial and pathogen communities within seagrass meadows — Songlin Liu — Microbiology Open

In 2013, Sorcha Mc Ginty, a biologist then at the University of Zurich, and her colleagues created a computer model showing that plasmids — genes that move from one bacterium to another — help spur the evolution of cooperation within bacterial communities.