Microscopic menagerie

New view of microbes forces rethinking of what it means to be an organism

MADE OF MICROBES  The microbes dwelling in and on multicellular organisms, such as insects and humans, should be viewed as evolutionarily inseparable from their hosts, some biologists argue. 

Nicolle Rager Fuller

What is a wasp?” might seem like an overly simple question for a Ph.D.