Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes

Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 12:50 in Biology & Nature

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.

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