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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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Autores principales: Arias-Sánchez, Flor I., Vessman, Björn, Mitri, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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