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Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Nov 2014
Moeller Andrew H, Li Yingying, Mpoudi Ngole Eitel, Ahuka-Mundeke Steve, Lonsdorf Elizabeth V, Pusey Anne E, Peeters Martine, Hahn Beatrice H, Ochman Howard
Abstract excerpt
Humans are ecosystems containing trillions of microorganisms, but the evolutionary history of this microbiome is obscured by a lack of knowledge about microbiomes of African apes. We sequenced the gut communities of hundreds of chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas and developed a phylogenetic approach to reconstruct how present-day human microbiomes have diverged from those of ancestral populations. Compositional...
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