Is Host Filtering the Main Driver of Phylosymbiosis across the Tree of Life?

ABSTRACT Host-associated microbiota composition can be conserved over evolutionary time scales. Indeed, closely related species often host similar microbiota; i.e., the composition of their microbiota harbors a phylogenetic signal, a pattern sometimes referred to as “phylosymbiosis.” Elucidating the...

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Main Authors: Florent Mazel, Katherine M. Davis, Andrew Loudon, Waldan K. Kwong, Mathieu Groussin, Laura Wegener Parfrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-10-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00097-18