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Community diversity is associated with intra-species genetic diversity and gene loss in the human gut microbiome.
eLife - 9 Feb 2023
Madi Naïma, Chen Daisy, Wolff Richard, Shapiro B Jesse, Garud Nandita R
Abstract excerpt
How the ecological process of community assembly interacts with intra-species diversity and evolutionary change is a longstanding question. Two contrasting hypotheses have been proposed: Diversity Begets Diversity (DBD), in which taxa tend to become more diverse in already diverse communities, and Ecological Controls (EC), in which higher community diversity impedes diversification. Previously, using 16S rRNA...
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