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The mind-body-microbial continuum
2011-03-31
Abstract excerpt
Our understanding of the vast collection of microbes that live on and inside us (microbiota) and their collective genes (microbiome) has been revolutionized by culture-independent “metagenomic” techniques and DNA sequencing technologies. Most of our microbes live in our gut, where they function as a metabolic organ and provide attributes not encoded in our human genome. Metagenomic studies are revealing shared and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2f3baef3-51bc-5902-b240-1ccd8b8b32ec
- DOI
- 10.31887/dcns.2011.13.1/agonzalez
