Sentences with phrase «of symbiotic microbes»

Only insects carry Wolbachia, but all animals have a range of symbiotic microbes.

This could also work in reverse — the loss of some symbiotic microbes could increase the extinction risk of their hosts given their mutual interdependence, as has been suggested for some orchids and their mycorrhizal partners.

The discovery of another symbiotic microbe in leaf - cutter ant fungal gardens is «very exciting,» says etymologist Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. «When I first got into this stuff, we thought it was a... two - partner symbiosis.

Not exact matches

Far from being passive hangers - on, symbiotic microbes may shape the evolution of the plants and animals that play host to them

One theory is that the sponge's transparent framework collects the glow from luminescent, symbiotic microbes and concentrates it into a network of miniature spotlights that attract prey.

Its logo is two lab rats, and its introductory blurb reads, «The world is a crowded petri dish, and yet for those of an intellectual bent who happen to be single, it's not easy, especially past university age, to find that certain microbe for a great symbiotic relationship.»

Carrie Arnold discusses the idea that symbiotic microbes help drive the evolution of their hosts (12 January, p 30).

«What we think of as coral are really the animal host, symbiotic algae and symbiotic microbes all living together.

When Cary applied for the program at Scripps, his background with bivalves caught the attention of Horst Felbeck, one of the first to identify endosymbionts (symbiotic microbes that reside within the host cell) in vent clams and mussels.

Some of those carbon products transfer from the roots to symbiotic fungi and soil microbes, which store the carbon in the soil as humus.

Finally, there is the possibility — this perhaps the strangest of all — of weird microbes and familiar microbes operating in symbiotic relationships that benefit each other through the exchange of chemical compounds, enzymes, or even genes.

«It's a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,» said Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who has contributed to the body of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the conclusion that symbiotic microbes play a fundamental role in virtually all aspects of plant and animal biology, including the origin of new species.

This highlights the value of investigating host — microbe relationships from all branches of the tree of life, including those in which only a single symbiotic species is involved.

«We are learning that these two fundamentally different cells are changing each other dramatically, and this might be relevant for other symbiotic systems, including human and parasitic microbe relationships,» said study co-author Eunsoo Kim, an assistant curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

In order to fully grasp the complexities of how symbiotic microbes might affect evolution, Bordenstein said, the fields of microbiology and evolutionary biology will have to form a symbiotic relationship of their own.

Diet, however, remains one of the main avenues through which symbiotic microbes populate an organism.

Animals acquire their symbiotic microbes in a variety of ways, by touching things or from the very process of being born.

Preliminary findings suggest that the presence of certain symbiotic microbes alters the activity of genes that regulate the immune system.

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].

The SCOBY, or Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast, is the collection of microbes responsible for turning sweet tea into a probiotic beverage.

The symbiotic relationship of the microbes produces a stable growing culture.