Where do you go when you're a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural "beauty salons," lively ...

Cleaner fish shape coral reef health by affecting where and how microbes spread. Removing them changed fish behavior.

The diagnosis: The woman had melioidosis, a bacterial infection caused by a microbe that lives in soil ... the continental U.S., but she owned two fish tanks. While looking for the source of ...

Reef "beauty salons" staffed by tiny cleaner fish aren t just for parasite removal they may also shape the microbial life of ...

Conversely, could they help spread beneficial microbes among reef communities? Such questions carry important implications for protecting and restoring coral reefs. This YouTube clip of gobies ...

The researchers chased 12 clownfish in six fish tanks for eight weeks to swab their mucus and identify microbes through gene sequencing. They published their results in the journal Coral Reefs.

shumwayae growing in the lab, the scientists removed the microbes from the mix ... N.C. He’s seen Pfiesteria feeding directly on fish in laboratory tanks, but he cautions that wild, free ...

These recolonized animals were also more frisky as they aged, swimming more vigorously around their tanks than control ... allow harmful microbes to thrive, and a microbial transplant might hit the ...

When you remove all the water, you also remove the good microbes essential for life. There’s no denying that aquariums are ...

Fish eat the invertebrates, and fish poop provides more nutrients for the microbes, in a cyclical process. [Photo: John Hand] The tank, TimberFish’s first commercial pilot, was stocked with 300 ...

An engineered gut microbe can detoxify methylmercury, reducing the amount that passes into the brain and developing fetuses of mice fed a diet rich in fish, UCLA and UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

The patient had never traveled outside the continental U.S., but she owned two fish tanks. While looking for the source of the bacteria in her home, scientists gathered samples of water ...