The Evolution of a Bird and Its Micro Organism Community

As a species of host begins to diverge into multiple to speciate their sembiots, those riding along on and in them have basically no option but to split. The same thing has been noted with aphids and the bacteria that lives inside them to allow them to process the plant material they siphen out. And this actually brings us back to that concept of the holobiant. There is some research support that you can, in certain cases, y consider it as a unit. But not all sembiosis are built equally. Another symbiotic relationship might really not affect the evolution of its host,. Even if they are very closely associated, they might not, when you actually look

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