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Each animal species hosts a unique microbial community and benefits from it.
Additional experiments with two of the groups -- one mammal and one insect -- demonstrated that individuals possessing their natural microbiota digested food more efficiently and had greater survival than those that were implanted with the microbial communities of closely related species.
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We kind of knew this since long ago, but it's great that we have an even better confirmation.