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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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Autores principales: Moeller, Andrew H., Degnan, Patrick H., Pusey, Anne E., Wilson, Michael L., Hahn, Beatrice H., Ochman, Howard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23149725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2159