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Genotype is a stronger determinant than sex of the mouse gut microbiota.
Microbial ecology - 1 Feb 2011
Kovacs Amir, Ben-Jacob Noa, Tayem Hanna, Halperin Eran, Iraqi Fuad A, Gophna Uri
Abstract excerpt
The mammalian gut microbiota is considered to be determined mostly by diet, while the effect of genotype is still controversial. Here, we examined the effect of genotype on the gut microbiota in normal populations, exhibiting only natural polymorphisms, and evaluated this effect in comparison to the effect of sex. DNA fingerprinting approaches were used to profile the gut microbiota of eight different recombinant...
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