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Microbial byproducts determine reproductive fitness of free-living and parasitic nematodes
2021-08-03
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<h4>Summary</h4> A distinguishing feature of Trichuris nematodes is that these parasitic worms reproduce within the digestive tracts of humans and other mammalian hosts shedding thousands of eggs daily, facilitating their sustained presence in the environment and hampering eradication efforts. Although this aspect of the lifecycle places Trichuris in a microbiota-rich environment, metabolic byproducts of bacter...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d436c4be-4f94-5b63-9fb6-c1124968e17b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.08.02.454806