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Nematoad get Slime to team up to eat Slugs.Slugs grow calcium shells to protect themselves from slime.Slimemold develop teeth to eat the snails.Snails going on land to escape OctopodesOctopodes grow carapace to wet sacks on land.Land snails infect insects with nematoad.🌎🎪
Could you eat bats to infect your gut bacteria with chitinase producing strains?https://t.co/TSSvv0gHlq
Insects as biopolymers. TL;DR: insect plastics & fuel."review focuses on the biopolymer chitin and discusses research and knowledge relevant to chitin degradation and potential chemical products that can be made from chitin degradation products."https://t.co/gSysCrm5xz
[Well actually], we have chitenase in gut to digest fungus.Insectivore likely secondary?"main constituent of fungus cell wall and also present in mammalian diet, so role of mammalian chitinases is to provide innate immunity and also to digest the food."https://t.co/0Jj0JsPv4S
"emerging evidence that chitinases have additional functions beyond degrading environmental chitin, such as involvement in innate and acquired immune responses, tissue remodeling, fibrosis, and serving as virulence factors of bacterial pathogens."https://t.co/SVk2jjFEes
I smell someone's agenda.https://t.co/NGwu8SXSfq
"We have an enzyme within our stomach [chitinase] which is literally there to digest the exoskeleton of [fungal cell walls]– we are made to eat [fungus]," is perhaps equally true. But my agenda is that we are ants, so what have you?
There is a hyper-parasite that is infecting bats... A skin eating fungus.https://t.co/kzYw6e5pFC
Go home bats, you're drunk.https://t.co/xC9TiPWC0v
I wonder if bats use their sense of smell to self-medicate when their gut microbes are perterbed. https://t.co/U4LSsqtCru
Fungus eating bats is eaten by a bacteria."The treatment is based on a bacterium that inhibits fungal growth, and was originally studied to see if it could slow the ripening of fruits and vegetables."https://t.co/TbDpc8ANgM
🌎🎪 => Earth CircusPrehensile thumbs. https://t.co/WBCECRDsrd
This shit is easy to find.Racoons have an equivalent to opposable thumbs. So they should be able to ride bikes. So "Racoon riding a bike" exists, it is almost inevitable.https://t.co/3JeWUFKhQ7 https://t.co/OnvLRVbbXB
Can we stop killing the microbes inside of bee's guts that impact their foraging behavior? Please?https://t.co/cuKa1T4hK3 https://t.co/wRibizMtr1
In a strange sort of irony, one of the bacteria that might be able to prevent the bat's white-nose fungus problem [Rhodococcus rhodochrous ala https://t.co/UrfC3uVus2] is also great at improving glyphosate production. https://t.co/ppeU2LmMEsWeird.
"Thus, microbiota profiling could be used as a diagnostic tool in beekeeping practices to predict hive health and guide hive management."https://t.co/0zN6pcopda
Underlying suspicion. Bee spread fungus to control plants & compete w/ other foragers?In ants:"Data also support that ants may be acting as vectors of fungi spores on plants, as ant visited branches had higher fungus incidence than non-visited branches"https://t.co/r1dQu9iYNP
"Nematode trapping fungi are responsible for keeping the nematode population in check and are an important part of the subsoil ecosystem."https://t.co/MI2p3gXBkz
What is really fun about this study in the meta: it suggests that forests have mechanisms that cause themselves to light on fire as partial adaptation to rid themselves of all the plant parasites that the ants drag onto them.https://t.co/K7fBZuUbzE
Underlying suspicion. Bee spread fungus to control plants & compete w/ other foragers?In ants:"Data also support that ants may be acting as vectors of fungi spores on plants, as ant visited branches had higher fungus incidence than non-visited branches"https://t.co/r1dQu9iYNP