Rampant Host Switching Shaped
the Termite Gut Microbiome — Thomas Bourguignon — Current Biology
«Evolutionary origin of
termite gut microbiome revealed.»
However,
the termite gut microbiome is among the most complex of any animal group.
The paper, «Rampant host switching shaped
the termite gut microbiome,» is published today in the high - impact journal Current Biology.
Not exact matches
Termites have achieved ecological dominance and now some of the ingredients for their success have been determined to lie in their unique
gut microbiome «factories» — which enable the creatures to eat wood, soil and other material generally not considered as food sources by other animals but rather as indigestible.