Study examines role of microbes, their effect on infectious disease dynamics in Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
The adult human body is made up of about 37 trillion cells. Microbes, mainly bacteria, outnumber body cells by 10 to 1. Increasingly, scientists recognize that this huge community of microbes, called the microbiome, affects the health, development and evolution of all multicellular organisms, including humans.
