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Industrialization is associated with elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the human microbiome

2020-01-29

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Horizontal Gene Transfer, the process by which bacteria acquire new genes and functions from non-parental sources, is common in the human microbiome 1,2 . If the timescale of HGT is rapid compared to the timescale of human colonization, then it could have the effect of ‘personalizing’ bacterial genomes by providing incoming strains with the genes necessary to adapt to the diet or lifestyle of a new host. The exte...

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DOI: 10.1101/2020.01.28.922104

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