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These microbes have a single whiplike flagellum, which beats much like a propeller to move them throughout their watery environments.

The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by soil microbes have a significant role in the control of plant diseases and plant growth promotion.

Known collectively as the gut microflora (or microbiota, a term Gordon prefers because it derives from the Greek word bios, for "life"), these microbes have a Star Trek analogue, he says: the Borg Collective, a community of cybernetically enhanced humanoids with functions so intertwined that they operate as a single intelligence, sort of like an ant colony.

The work needs to be replicated, but the microbes "have a good chance of being that old," Cano says.

By several means, these microbes have a greater living expectancy than their counterpart isolated from soil or any other conventional habitats.

The challenge with wetland marshes is that the toxicity of the oil can kill plants before the microbes have a chance to get to work on the oil.

Many microbes have an enzyme that can convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide.

Such rapid evolution was possible, said Enzo Palombo, a professor of microbiology at Swinburne University, given that microbes have an extraordinary ability to adapt to their surroundings.

Experiments with microbes have an established tradition as model systems for understanding ecological and evolutionary processes (Elena and Lenski, 2003; Kassen and Rainey, 2004).

Intestinal microbes have an important role in the digestion of dietary components, resulting in metabolites that may directly or indirectly contribute to IBS symptoms.

Over 20 years ago, a review of available data for short-term, locus-specific mutation rates concluded that DNA-based microbes have an approximately constant wild-type BPM rate of 3.3 × 10−3 per genome per generation [ 22].