For quotations using this term, see Citations:Great Acceleration.

[…] I emptied the trickling mire upon my baking wound, rubbing it in with my fingers as a smearer rubs his tar into the divided fleece of a sheep.

Your body’s microbiome is all the genes your microbiota contains, however colloquially the two terms are often used interchangeably.

Was that really her making that low, hungry, almost semitortured sound deep down in her throat?