Dietary history contributes to enterotype-like clustering and functional metagenomic content in the intestinal microbiome of wild mice

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Understanding the origins of gut microbial community structure is critical for the identification and interpretation of potential fitness-related traits for the host. The presence of community clusters characterized by differences in the abundance of signature taxa, referred to as enterotypes, is a debated concept first reported in humans and later extended to other mammalian hosts. In this study, we provide a...

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