Intestinal flora of cockroaches and termites reflects these insects' family relationships, and divergent diets
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, have compared the microbial ecosystems in the intestines termites and cockroaches, with fascinating results. The research is published in the April Applied and Environmental Microbiology.