{
  "id": 14533355,
  "title": "Mollusk family trees play a key role in shaping microbiomes, researchers find",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/mollusk-family-trees-play-a-key-role-in-shaping-microbiomes",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-14T20:30:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-mollusk-family-trees-play-key.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A mollusk's microbial community has more to do with its family tree than its address. In other words, the composition of a mollusk's microbiome depends less on the environment in which it lives and more on what species it belongs to, say University of Michigan researchers.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}