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Fungal microbiome: Whether mice get fatter or thinner depends on the fungi that live in their gut

  • Written by Kent Willis, Assistant Professor of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
imageFungi make up a small but important part of gut microbiomes.Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

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