Sentences with phrase «mold against the insects»
In their initial experiments, Drott and colleagues confirmed that the poison appears to protect the mold against the insects: When they added aflatoxin to the fruit fly larvae's food, the maggots died and the fungus flourished.
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These insects team up with symbiotic bacteria which produce an antibiotic cocktail of up to 45 different substances within a single species to protect their offspring against mold fungi.
The natural world requires them in order to perform many important tasks, including protection against insects, maintaining freshness of seeds for germination, and protection against mold and fungus.