the thing about microbiology when you’re NOT working in human health is that you have to make peace with the fact that a big chunk of bacteria out there were first identified, described, sequenced, and named from the human microbiome. like, specifically named in reference to where it is found on the body. even if it exists plentifully elsewhere.
and this makes sense okay but it’s mildly weird when you’re doing literally anything other than human medicine and you’ve gotta be like, “Hello! We found the bacteria Sciencename comesfromvagina growing in our fish stocks. We promise nobody dunked their cooch in the water. It’s totally natural. Anyway, we discovered that it helps the fish grow, so we’re going to give them more pussy bacteria.”