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It's one of the underwater world's classic partnerships.

Clownfish and...

Anemone, NEMO hides in the anemone, which helps keep predatory fish at bay.

But at the same time, there are other fish species that will actually kind of nibble on the

sea and enemies, and the clownfish will actually go out and kind of scare them away.

Jeff Gore, a biophysicist at MIT.

So in this case, there's actually a cross-protection mutualism between these two species,

in which they kind of help to avoid predation. This kind of cross-protection mutualism between these two species in which they kind of help to avoid predation.

This kind of cross-protection is usually seen between two animals, but Gore studies the same sort of mutualism in microbes.

He and his team demonstrated the first experimental example of that cross-protective relationship in drug-resistant microbes using

two strains of antibiotic-resistant E. coli bacteria, one resistant to ampicillin, the other

to Chloramphenicol.

The researchers grew both bacteria together in a test tube, in the presence of both antibiotics.

And rather than succumbing to the drugs, each bacterial strain deactivated one

of the two antibiotics, thus protecting the other strain. That activity led to a stable coexistence

over time, which Gorses could, in theory, give the bugs an opportunity to swap resistance

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