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Anatomy promotes neutral coexistence of strains in the human skin microbiome
2021-05-14
Abstract excerpt
What enables strains of the same species to coexist in a microbiome? Here, we investigate if host anatomy can explain strain co-residence of Cutibacterium acnes , the most abundant species on human skin. We reconstruct on-person evolution and migration using 947 C. acnes colony genomes acquired from 16 subjects, including from individual skin pores, and find that pores maintain diversity by limiting competition....
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- Literature Corpus work
- fbd2a8fc-510c-534c-876b-e74f01074e2a
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.05.12.443817