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. 2018 Oct 22;28(20):R1179-R1180.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.069.

Osmotrophy

Thomas A Richards  1 , Nicholas J Talbot  2
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Osmotrophy

Thomas A Richards et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

What do you do when your food is too big to chew, or worse, when you don't have a stomach at all? Richards and Talbot explain how osmotrophs get around the problem by digesting on the outside.

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