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Artificially selecting microbial communities: If we can breed dogs, why not microbiomes?
Natural microbial communities perform many functions that are crucial for human well-being. Yet we have very little control over them, and we do not know how to optimize their functioning. One idea is to breed microbial communities as we breed dogs: by comparing a set of microbiomes and allowing the...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31469824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000356 |