In the intestine, bacteria are competing with each other to find their habit or the throne. This is an ongoing battle for power.
Certain parallelisms between the two exist.
Let's start with the extremely long list of bacteria that live inside us and the number of characters in the series Game of Thrones.
This is just a small glimpse of the characters playing this game! Evidently, both the lists are not complete.
Game of Intestine |
Game of Thrones |
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Lactobacillus spp. Bifidobacterium spp. Clostridium spp. Bacteroides spp. Ruminococcus spp. Faecalibacterium spp. Pseudomonas spp. Prevotella spp. Streptococcus spp. Enterobacter spp. Enterococcus spp. Peptostreptococcus spp. Fusobacteria spp. Lachnospira spp. Roseburia spp. Butyrivibrio spp. Gemella spp. Megasphaera spp. Rothia spp. Veillonella spp. Porphyromonas spp. Eubacterium spp. |
Jon Snow Arya Stark Eddard "Ned" Stark Robert Baratheon Jaime Lannister Catelyn Stark Cersei Lannister Daenerys Targaryen Jorah Mormont Viserys Targaryen Sansa Stark Robb Stark Theon Greyjoy Bran Stark Joffrey Baratheon Sandor "The Hound" Clegane Tyrion Lannister Khal Drogo Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish Davos Seaworth Samwell Tarly Stannis Baratheon |
Another striking aspect of Game of Thrones is that people die all the time, a bit like our microbiota that changes with time.
A paper published by the lab of Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello in 2015, elegantly showed that Indian tribes of Amazon forest have a more diverse intestinal flora than the average American population. Inciting that the onset of agriculture and an occidental lifestyle has had adverse effects on the diversity of the population.
In the same line, so did the killing of Robert Baratheon which completely disturbed the Seven Kingdoms.
Figure courtesy HBO
I can find more similitude between the two of them.
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