Walls Talk: Urban Living May Decrease Beneficial Microbes (7 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Walls Talk: Urban Living May Decrease Beneficial Microbes (7 of 11)

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Mestizo house at Checherta shows external enclosure wall. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 12, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.F. Ruiz-Calderon at University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and colleagues was titled, "Walls talk: Microbial biogeography of homes spanning urbanization."

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[Credit: Humberto Cavallin]

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