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Nearly all of today's antibiotics are versions of weapons long wielded by microbes and fungi.
In 1998, it was discovered that plant parasitic nematodes possess genes encoding beta-1,4-endoglucanase enzymes (cellulases) and that by far the strongest non- Tylenchida homologs for these enzymes were prokaryotic cellulases from Pseudomonas, Clostridium and other microbes.
To acquire the iron essential for their growth and metabolism, the microbes have evolved the ability to compete with host iron binding factors.
protects itself against microbes and parasites via epithelial barriers: for example, epithelial cells of the trachea, gut, genital tract, and Malpighian tubules produce antimicrobial peptides (local response).
Only very recently has it become possible to combine visually targeted sampling (Figure 2) and high-resolution measurements of geochemical gradients with molecular tools for the identification of microbes, such as 16S rDNA and organic-biomarker-based techniques.