Biologists revisit Janzen's theory of microbe-macrobe competition with new variable

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 08:31 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —A team of biologists from the U.K., Germany, and Canada has adapted a theory that suggests that microbes cause food to spoil so that larger animals won't eat it. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the team describes how changing one variable added more support to the theory overall.

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