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Life in a World without Microbes

Jack A Gilbert et al. PLoS Biol. 2014.

Abstract

Life in a world without microbes Can a macrorganism survive without commensal microbes in a world of microbes? What would happen if all microbes on earth suddenly disappeared?

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