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Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century Middle Iron Age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome

BACKGROUND: The archaeological incidence of ancient human faecal material provides a rare opportunity to explore the taxonomic composition and metabolic capacity of the ancestral human intestinal microbiome (IM). Here, we report the results of the shotgun metagenomic analyses of an ancient South Afr...

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Autores principales: Rifkin, Riaan F., Vikram, Surendra, Ramond, Jean-Baptiste, Rey-Iglesia, Alba, Brand, Tina B., Porraz, Guillaume, Val, Aurore, Hall, Grant, Woodborne, Stephan, Le Bailly, Matthieu, Potgieter, Marnie, Underdown, Simon J., Koopman, Jessica E., Cowan, Don A., Van de Peer, Yves, Willerslev, Eske, Hansen, Anders J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7204047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32375874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00832-x