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Pack Rats Expand Diet with New Gut Bacteria

Jul 31, 2014 · 2 min
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Pack rats given the right gut bacteria via a fecal transplant from other pack rats can then digest foods that they formerly could not, but the donors could. Karen Hopkin reports 

 

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