Denise Dearing and Kevin Kohl, University of Utah (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Denise Dearing and Kevin Kohl, University of Utah

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Biology professor Denise Dearing and postdoctoral researcher Kevin Kohl are standing in the University of Utah laboratory where they demonstrated how gut microbes play a crucial role in allowing woodrats and certain other mammals to eat and thrive on toxic plants such as creosote and juniper.

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Nick Steffens, University of Utah Marketing and Communications.

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