When the husky and lean mice shared microbes with each other, the bigger ones picked up some of the beneficial gut flora—and had improved metabolisms.

当胖瘦老鼠共享微生物, 大个的会挑选一些有益的肠道菌群、提高新陈代谢。

One company is fighting diabetes based on gut microbe research.

一家公司正在研究肠道微生物，以对抗糖尿病。

That's microbes, grain, yeast and it gets put into the pit and it ferments?

这些就是微生物，谷物，酵母，它们被装进坑里发酵吗？

If we were to take water and rehydrate this piece of dirt and put this under the microscope, it would be rife with abundant microbes swimming everywhere.

如果你带水，并淋湿这块土壤把它放到显微镜之下会发现水里微生物。

But the runner-up was the stethoscope's surface, which gathered more microbes than the palms or the backs of the hands.

而其次是诊器的表面，面的细菌等微生物可比手掌和手背等要多的多。

While a proportion of these carbon products remain in the plant, some transfer from the roots to fungi and soil microbes, which store the carbon in the soil.

这些碳产品中一部分会留在植物中，另一些会从植物根部转移到真菌和土壤细菌中，它们会将碳保留在土壤里。

On the other hand, refrigeration both preserves the shelf life of the butter and reduces the growth rates of spoilage microbes which might be present.

另一方面，冷藏既可以保持奶油的保质期，又可以降低可能存在的腐败微生物的生长速度。

That sounds clever for a microbe – how did they figure that out?

这些微生物还很聪明，他们是怎样做到的呢？

And it's a microbe I really need very, very tiny amount of water.

它是一种微生物，我认为真的需要非常, 非常微量的水。

After 12 years of trying, they succeeded in culturing a microbe that belongs to an elusive group called Asgard archaea.

经过12年的努力，他们成功地培养出一种微生物，它属于一个叫阿斯加德古菌的难以捉摸的群体。

People and animals carry many microbes that can jump to another species through close contact.

人和动物携带许多微生物，这些微生物可以通过密切接触传播给另一个物种。

For example, take methanogens, the microbes that make methane.

比如产烷生物，一种制造甲烷的微生物。

Microbes in this area break down the food using a process called enteric fermentation.

这个区域的微生物通过肠道发酵的过程来分解食物。

This is because those areas, called deltas, contain higher levels of ancient microbes to study.

这是因为这些被称为三角洲的区域含有更多需要研究的古代微生物。

Microbes living in oxygen-poor livestock dung produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

一些微生物生活在氧含量低的牲畜粪便中，它们产生甲烷，一种主要的温室气体。

A new study has shown that microbes can survive without water for decades.

一项新研究显示，微生物可以在没有水的情况下存活数十年。

Elephants will uproot entire trees to get at the salty soil under the roots, gorillas will chew on rotting wood to eat the salty microbes and some animals will drink urine due to its sodium content.

大象会将整棵树连根拔起，以从树根以下的盐土中获取盐分，大猩猩则会啃食腐烂的木头，食用其中的含盐微生物，一些动物则会因为尿液中的钠含量而饮用尿液。

So that whipworms no longer mooch off us-or our microbes.

因此，鞭虫再也不能从我们——或者说我们的细菌中——揩油。

As temperatures rise, the microbes eat more.

随着气温的升高，微生物的食用量也会加大。

The others were fed an ordinary diet, not fortified with microbes.

另一组则以不用微生物强化的一般食物喂食。