Sentences with phrase «gut symbiont»

C butyricum is a human gut symbiont and commensal UNLESS we have taken antibiotics... Antibiotics are like genocide for these strains unless we can re-introduce from soil and other sources.

Structure of a membrane - attack complex / perforin (MACPF) family protein from the human gut symbiont Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

Not exact matches

Researchers examining the genes of different species of aphids and of their individual gut bacteria found that the emergence of new species of aphids during evolution was mirrored by speciation events in the insects» Buchnera symbionts.

But of course we have always been symbionts, dependent on the microbes in our guts to digest our food.

Still, since only a fraction of the symbiont population is harvested, the microbes likely benefit from the association with the host by gaining nutrition in the bug's gut and a secured transmission route to the next generation,» says Hassan Salem.

This cell - within - a-cell relationship can also be found in corals and in the guts of cicadas, but the green alga - spotted salamander interaction is the only known example of a symbiont entering the cells of a vertebrate species.

Strangest of all were genetic signatures resembling parasites or symbiotic partners of large aquatic organisms: a rainbow trout intestinal bacterium, a sponge symbiont, a lobster gut bacterium.17