With their specialized diet of almost exclusively eucalyptus leaves, do koalas require specialist microbes to help them digest their food? Scientists investigated the composition of bacterial communities in different digestion-associated organs but found no unusual or special microbial communities when they compared these with those of other mammals.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/QhOJX1F5CdY/150513083536.htm
Koalas have a funny diet: Do they have funny bacteria?
13 mayo 2015
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