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New Studies Reveal Connections between Animals' Microbial Communities and Behavior

By: Targeted News Service Dateline: ATHENS, Ga.
Date: October 11, 2012
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The University of Georgia issued the following news release: New research is revealing surprising connections between animal microbiomes--the communities of microbes that live inside animals' bodies--and animal behavior, according to a paper by University of Georgia ecologist Vanessa O. Ezenwa and h

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