Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes
Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 10:20
in Biology & Nature
A study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows that the microbial communities inside whales may play an important role in the digestion of one of the ocean's most abundant carbon-rich lipids, known as a wax ester. Their findings were published Dec. 2 in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology.