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In the past decade or so, deep inside Earth, scientists have discovered a rich microbial fauna and have theorized that Mars may be similar.

The production of chemical compounds is principally important for soft bodied ascidian species, which use secondary metabolites to deter predatory fishes, to compete for space, to control settlement and growth of microbial fauna and other fouling organisms.

This opens the way for evolutionary and ecological characterization, such as population genetic analysis of the nematodes, metagenomics and isolation of the microbial fauna, and surveys of the occurrence of pathogens.

Such weak and strong colonization phenotypes can sometimes be maintained over several generations and depend both on the microbial fauna and on the worm genotype: many wild C. elegans isolates were not as efficient in crushing E. coli OP50 as C. elegans N2 is, and many wild bacteria could colonize C. elegans N2 more readily than E. coli OP50 does (MAF, unpublished observations).

Thus, a balance exists between the intestinal immune system and the microbial fauna that exist and persist in the gastrointestinal tract.

Availability of nutrients and electron acceptors plays an important role in wetland C cycling with available nutrients limiting the growth of microbial fauna (Drake et al. 1996; D'Angelo and Reddy 1999; Wright and Reddy 2001).

Presently, the relative importance of the chemical characteristics of the vent fluid and of the microbial fauna present on the available substratum is being explored in experiments conducted at the East Pacific Rise (T Shank, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, personal communication).

This indicated that they had shared their microbial fauna – mice eat each other's droppings – and that the "lean" bacteria were winning out in the battle to colonise the guts of the "obese" mice, Dr Gordon said.

In the past decade or so, as scientists have discovered a remarkably rich microbial fauna dwelling deep in the Earth's interior, miles down, they have theorized that Mars may be similar.

Therefore, the steady occurrence of the toxin in the roots and exudates of Bt corn provides a good example of an unpredicted attribute (which also has potential long-term implications for the microbial fauna in the soil).

Viruses infecting the microbial fauna have an enormous impact on the biosphere.