Large Comparative Analyses of Primate Body Site Microbiomes Indicate that the Oral Microbiome Is Unique among All Body Sites and Conserved among Nonhuman Primates

ABSTRACT The study of the mammalian microbiome serves as a critical tool for understanding host-microbial diversity and coevolution and the impact of bacterial communities on host health. While studies of specific microbial systems (e.g., in the human gut) have rapidly increased, large knowledge gap...

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Main Authors: Abigail E. Asangba, Lawrence Mugisha, Joshua Rukundo, Rebecca J. Lewis, Ali Halajian, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Randall E. Junge, Mitchell T. Irwin, Johan Karlson, Andrew Perkin, Mrinalini Watsa, Gideon Erkenswick, Karen L. Bales, Dorothy L. Patton, Anna J. Jasinska, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Steven R. Leigh, Rebecca M. Stumpf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01643-21