image: Intestinal microbiota promotes growth of infant mice. Mice lacking microbiota (right) are thinner and smaller than standard mice (left) carrying intestinal microbes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 19 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Schwarzer at Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon in Lyon, France, and colleagues was titled, "Lactobacillus plantarum strain maintains growth of infant mice during chronic undernutrition." view more
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