Sentences with phrase «by symbiotic microbes»
The compound might help the animal defend against predatory fish, or it might actually be produced by symbiotic microbes living on the creature's surface.
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Animals acquire their symbiotic microbes in a variety of ways, by touching things or from the very process of being born.
Humans rely on their native microbiota for nutrition and resistance to colonization by pathogens [3 — 6]; furthermore, recent discoveries have shown that symbiotic microbes make essential contributions to the development, metabolism, and immune response of the host [7 — 10].
It is a microbe (bacteria) that is produced by microorganisms internally (synthesised in the gut) and elsewhere (e.g. in soil by microbes that live in a symbiotic relationship with plant roots).