HOW COULD TO PRODUCE NEW BACTERIA IN THE MOTH GUT
Recent study in the Cell Chemical Biology that bacterium secretes a toxic substance that kills off other invading and often deadly bacteria, thereby securing itself larval gut of a particular moth species, the cotton leaf worm.They give a pass to one bacterium E. mundtii . Fig: Alabama argillacae In fact, they allow it to proliferate uncontrolled inside their guts as they grow for a long time. In trying to make sense of this, they found that young S . Littoralis larvae had an abundance of Enterococcus. Natural study peoples took a group of Enterococcus bacteria from the young larvae and watched how they interacted with each other. They found that E. mundtii were able to outlive the rest by secreting a toxic peptide that not only killed off other Enterococcus bacteria but also plurality of other harmful, invading bacteria that would have otherwise had a g...