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Butyrate Production Pathway Abundances Are Similar in Human and Nonhuman Primate Gut Microbiomes
16 Sept 2021
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Over the course of human evolution, shifts in dietary practices such as meat-eating and cooking, have resulted in reduced fiber intake, a trend that has been exaggerated more recently in industrialized populations. Reduced fiber consumption is associated with a loss of gut microbial taxa that degrade fiber, particularly butyrate. Therefore, this dietary shift in humans may have altered the abundance of microbial...
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