What lives inside your navel?
Posted by staff / August 1, 2011
If you’re an innie and not an outie, your belly button is home to at least 60 to 100 or more species of bacteria, fungi and yeasts, according to new research.
The findings, to be presented on August 12 at the Earth Stewardship 96th Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, demonstrate how a belly button can become a haven for complex biodiversity.
“Although we find about 60 or 70 species on the average person, we have found more than 1400 species overall, such that differences among individuals are great,” Rob Dunn, assistant professor in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University, told Discovery News.
Full story at Discovery News.
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