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Island biogeography theory and the gut: why taller people tend to harbor more diverse gut microbiomes

Prior work has shown a positive scaling relationship between vertebrate body size and gut microbiome alpha-diversity. This observation mirrors commonly observed species area relationships (SAR) in many other ecosystems. Here, we show a similar scaling relationship between human height and gut microb...

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Autores principales: Sarmiento, Katherine Ramos, Carr, Alex, Diener, Christian, Locey, Kenneth J., Gibbons, Sean M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10441360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37609334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.08.552554