This Caterpillar-Like Organism May Be Crawling Around in Your Mouth Right Now

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This Caterpillar-Like Organism May Be Crawling Around in Your Mouth Right Now
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You are very special.

And you're so warm and moist – an ambulatory habitat for trillions of tiny, microscopic bacteria. Your skin, your follicles, your innards, are all crawling withShhh, it's OK. It's better this way. In fact, it is highly possible that you wouldn't be. But some of those little microbes are pretty strange – evolving and adapting to the unique environments provided by the human body.

"[It] suggests that members of the Neisseriaceae family may be good models to study these processes due to their morphological plasticity and genetic traceability." First, the team used electron microscopy to study the bacteria shape in detail, using fluorescence to understand cellular growth.

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