Sentences with phrase «of symbiotic bacteria»

✅ Take Probiotics — The typical adult has roughly 3 pounds of symbiotic bacteria living in their gut.

In a lab in Massachusetts, researchers have evolved a very unusual colony of symbiotic bacteria.

«It's the same process as for single cell genomics, but for aggregates of symbiotic bacteria and archaea,» said DOE JGI Microscale Applications Group head Rex Malmstrom of the technique called BONCAT - FACS (BONCAT — Fluorescence - Activated Cell Sorting).

A kind of symbiotic bacteria found in pea aphids (smaller ovals) help the insects resist parasitic wasps.

By contrast, in the tube worm millions of symbiotic bacteria that dwell within the its large plumes grab hydrogen sulfide and other noxious chemicals that seep from the vents and convert them into food and energy for their host, a process called chemosynthesis.

Boyd et al. sequenced the genomes of symbiotic bacteria from human lice as well as the closely related chimpanzee, gorilla and red colobus monkey lice.

The data provided a new perspective on the evolutionary tree of these symbiotic bacteria.

They came by acquiring a whole genome of a symbiotic bacterium that could already sense light or motion.

Or perhaps it will be an archaeon with signs of a symbiotic bacterium living within.

Not exact matches

This planet, the level of harm and exploitation, the fact that the suffering of other creatures is needed for carnivores (many humans) to live tells me that those consciousnesses are not any more interested in answering the prayers of humans than the symbiotic bacteria that help us get by in our bodies.

-- It's ingredients are simple; tea, sugar, water and a SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast)

Milk kefir grains are live active cultures consisting of yeast and bacteria existing in a symbiotic relationship.

Kefir is fermented milk made with kefir grains, which is a symbiotic culture of yeasts and good bacteria.

Kombucha: Defined as a living beverage that is fermented using a blend of organic white, green or black tea (or blends), organic raw sugar and a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast (commonly called the SCOBY or Mother).

Easily the freakiest thing about the SCOBY (which stands for Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeasts) is that, so long as it's got a continuous supply of sugar and tea to feast on, it just keeps growing.

This symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts is sometimes referred to as a SCOBY, but interestingly enough, this term relates only to kombucha, kefir's caffeinated cousin (source).

Then, add your scoby (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast).

While it is believed that these particular symbiotic strains have evolved over time as a way of kick - starting the digestive processes of very young humans, their discovery has prompted researchers to further investigate the possible benefits of other forms of probiotic bacteria during early childhood and adolescence.

As I began designing experiments to investigate the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen - fixing bacteria, my committee members applauded my ambition to pioneer a project far beyond the scope of my lab, which focuses on plant - pollinator interactions.

«The virus appears to have a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria — they share the job of establishing persistence.»

Some symbiotic bacteria living inside Colorado potato beetles can trick plants into reacting to a microbial attack rather than that of a chewing herbivore, according to a team of Penn State researchers who found that the beetles with bacteria were healthier and grew better.

Boyd also noted that «congruence between the evolutionary trees of lice and symbiotic bacteria can be traced to 20 - 25 mya when the lice parasitizing monkeys diverged from a common ancestor of hominid lice.»

Three options are on the table: tweak cereals so that they form symbiotic partnerships with rhizobia as legumes do; colonise cereal roots with other types of nitrogen - fixing bacteria; or transfer the bacterial genes that make fertiliser directly into the crop plants.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

The researchers found many types of marine bacteria, including symbiotic species that may help the fish digest algae.

Most of these bacteria are symbiotic, drawing from and providing for the plant in ways such as nitrogen - fixing and leaf - protection.

When the worms were healthy, they housed a large population of Bacteroides — a group of helpful, supportive, symbiotic bacteria — and a smaller population of Proteobacteria — a group that contains a number of dangerous human pathogens.

Dangl, who worked with lead authors, postdoctoral researchers Gabriel Castrillo and Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira, graduate student Sur Herrera Paredes and research analyst Theresa F. Law, found evidence that soil bacteria can make use of this tradeoff between nutrient - seeking and immune defense, potentially to help establish symbiotic relationships with plants.

We have a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of bacteria that live in our bodies — they help us, we help them.

The health of the human vagina depends on a symbiotic / mutually beneficial relationship with «good» bacteria that live on its surface feeding on products produced by vaginal skin cells.

Dissection revealed symbiotic bacteria living within the worms, accounting for both their color and their source of nutrition — oils and fats found in bone.

Under the tutelage of geneticist Frederick Ausubel, Ruvkun earned a Ph.D. in microbial genetics in 1982 by figuring out how to knock out nitrogen - fixation genes in Rhizobium meliloti, a bacterium that has a symbiotic relationship with alfalfa.

With just 121 protein - coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap - eating mealybug, has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet.

The tangled symbiotic and pathogenic relationships between bacteria and multicellular animals go back into deep evolutionary time where fossils of ancestral microscopic soft - bodied eukaryotes are unlikely to have survived.

They found that complex interactions among a range of ectomycorrhizal fungi — which form symbiotic sheaths around the roots of plants — and certain bacteria appeared to drive the degradation of hydrocarbons in the ground.

Ewa Chrostek, PhD student at Teixeira's laboratory and first author of this study, says: «We found that some of the most protective Wolbachia variants reduce the survival of their hosts, suggesting that there may be a trade - off between the protection mediated by the symbiotic bacteria and other components of fitness.

They identified several key biosynthetic steps and discovered that the enzymes of the symbiotic Streptomyces worked less selectively than those of free - living bacteria.

But one thing's for sure, the discovery means rewriting textbooks to add salamanders to a short list of organisms, including coral and bacteria, that form symbiotic relationships with plants.

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 antibiotic cocktail produced by symbiotic bacteria changed very little in the course of evolution and its antipathogenic effect remained unaltered

This 50 - milliliter flask contains a symbiotic mix of bacteria derived from compost that was maintained for three years.

Members of the bean family (legumes) and some other kinds of plants form mutualistic symbiotic relationships with nitrogen fixing bacteria.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

That fact that mitochondria have their own DNA, RNA, and ribosomes, supports the endosymbiosis theory, as does the existence of the amoeba, a eukaryotic organism that lacks mitochondria and therefore requires a symbiotic relationship with an aerobic bacterium.

Select and resequence reveals relative fitness of bacteria in symbiotic and free - living environments — Liana T. Burghardt — PNAS

For instance, many deep - sea fish harbor symbiotic bacteria that emit light, which the fish use to signal other members of their 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

At first this may seem confusing since we typically associate bacteria with germs, infections, and sickness; however, we now know that while certain strains of bacteria in your body can be harmful, the «good» bacteria peacefully coexist with your body's immune system in a symbiotic relationship and ultimately help you.

The starter culture is a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast — or SCOBY for short — that's sometimes referred to as a «mushroom.»

The «grains» that are used to create Kefir are not actual grains but are actually a polysaccharide matrix containing a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (just like a Kombucha SCOBY).