Chimpanzees and Humans Harbor Compositionally Similar Gut Enterotypes

Microbes inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract tend to adopt one of three characteristic community structures, called ‘enterotypes’, each of which is overrepresented by a distinct set of bacterial genera. Here, we report that the gut microbiotae of chimpanzees also assort into enterotypes and...

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Main Authors: Moeller, Andrew H., Degnan, Patrick H., Pusey, Anne E., Wilson, Michael L., Hahn, Beatrice H., Ochman, Howard
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520023/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23149725
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2159
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