Article
Endospores and other lysis-resistant bacteria comprise a widely shared core community within the human microbiota
2017-11-27
Abstract excerpt
Endospore-formers in the human microbiota are well adapted for host-to-host transmission, and an emerging consensus points to their role in determining health and disease states in the gut. The human gut, more than any other environment, encourages the maintenance of endospore formation, with recent culture-based work suggesting that over 50% of genera in the microbiome carry genes attributed to this trait. Howeve...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d8609a11-eced-54d5-be9e-d1c594c940b7
- DOI
- 10.1101/221713
