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ecological suicide

06/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Scientists discover a soil bacteria that commits “ecological suicide”

A joint team of American and German researchers recently discovered self-destructive behavior by soil bacteria that should serve as a cautionary tale for us humans. A Cosmos Magazine article stated that excessively large populations of these microbes often commit “ecological suicide,” where they accidentally wipe themselves out by polluting their surroundings. In their study, the […]

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