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Captivity humanizes the primate microbiome.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Sept 2016
Clayton Jonathan B, Vangay Pajau, Huang Hu, Ward Tonya, Hillmann Benjamin M, Al-Ghalith Gabriel A, Travis Dominic A, Long Ha Thang, Tuan Bui Van, Minh Vo Van, Cabana Francis, Nadler Tilo, Toddes Barbara, Murphy Tami, Glander Kenneth E, Johnson Timothy J, Knights Dan
Abstract excerpt
The primate gastrointestinal tract is home to trillions of bacteria, whose composition is associated with numerous metabolic, autoimmune, and infectious human diseases. Although there is increasing evidence that modern and Westernized societies are associated with dramatic loss of natural human gut microbiome diversity, the causes and consequences of such loss are challenging to study. Here we use nonhuman...
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