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Hosts in biology are larger organisms that harbor smaller organisms inside or on their bodies (Casadevall & Pirofski, 2015). In this course, we commonly use this term to refer to animals used in scientific research studies or humans, with the smaller organisms being millions of gut microbes.
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The Center for Nutritional Psychology. (2024). Hosts. In Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.
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