Fish guts reveal microbial alliance

When most people clean a fish, they throw away the guts, but a team of biologists would rather take a close look at them.

SHOWING GUTS. The see-through zebra fish Danio rerio with its intestines highlighted. Gordon/PNAS

To understand the roles of the many microbes that live naturally within mammalian intestines, Jeffrey I. Gordon of Washington University School of Medicine in St.