Screening has also been suggested to act in animal-microbe symbioses. For instance, Tragust et al. [15] showed that carpenter ants acidify their own stomachs by swallowing acidopore secretions. Entomopathogenic bacteria are then rapidly killed off, whereas the co-adapted gut bacterial symbiontAsaias...
Mature cinnamon myrtle and lemon myrtle leaves were harvested from established trees grown in an uncontrolled environment at Muru Mittigar culture centre gardens in Castlereagh, NSW, Australia. The freshly harvested leaves were pounded separately in either Milli-Q water or methanol using a ceramic ...