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The role of adaptive immunity as an ecological filter on the gut microbiota in zebrafish.
The ISME journal - 1 Jul 2017
Stagaman Keaton, Burns Adam R, Guillemin Karen, Bohannan Brendan Jm
Abstract excerpt
All animals live in intimate association with communities of microbes, collectively referred to as their microbiota. Certain host traits can influence which microbial taxa comprise the microbiota. One potentially important trait in vertebrate animals is the adaptive immune system, which has been hypothesized to act as an ecological filter, promoting the presence of some microbial taxa over others. Here we...
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