Deep in the shallow freshwater ponds of King George Island, one of the most inhospitable landscapes on Earth, a tiny crustacean is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how animals acquire and maintain their gut microbes. The Antarctic fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini, a small anostracan crustacean that thrives in ephemeral postglacial ponds near the […]
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