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The Role of Gut Microbiota in Host Nutrition and Behavior of Termites

Quick fact

Termites may be the only animals that can extract significant nutrition from pure cellulose, thanks to a dense community of microbes in their hindgut that includes unique flagellated protozoa found nowhere else on Earth.

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Termites can eat wood, but they can't digest it on their own. So how do they survive on a diet that would starve most other animals?