Vaginal microbiomes show ethnic evolutionary dynamics and positive selection of Lactobacillus adhesins driven by a long-term niche-specific process

Summary: The vaginal microbiome’s composition varies among ethnicities. However, the evolutionary landscape of the vaginal microbiome in the multi-ethnic context remains understudied. We perform a systematic evolutionary analysis of 351 vaginal microbiome samples from 35 multi-ethnic pregnant women,...

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Main Authors: Xin Wei, Ming-Shian Tsai, Liang Liang, Liuyiqi Jiang, Chia-Jui Hung, Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, Larry Rand, Michael Snyder, Chao Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-04-01
Series:Cell Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124724004066