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Boyle said he knows of no other animals that have a bacteria-free gut as a normal condition...
...Essentially what we know is that the animal ingests bacteria and has no bacteria in its gut, so it must have a system for killing bacteria", Boyle added...
...animals are small marine wood-borer isopod crustaceans called Limnoria spp. There is one species of terrestial wood-borer crustaceans which also has a bacteria-free digestive tract...
...animals, sometimes called gribbles, produce a chemical that kills bacteria more powerfully than any other animal-made substance. They use the chemical to destroy all the microorganisms in the wood they...
...understand how the animal keeps its gut bacteria-free we may be able to interrupt that system and make the animal sick," he said, adding, "It might give us the ability to control its wood-boring activities...