Experimental evaluation of the importance of colonization history in early-life gut microbiota assembly

Experimental evaluation of the importance of colonization history in early-life gut microbiota assembly

The factors that govern assembly of the gut microbiota are insufficiently understood. Here, we test the hypothesis that inter-individual microbiota variation can arise solely from differences in the order and timing by which the gut is colonized early in life. Experiments in which mice were inoculat...

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Main Authors: Inés Martínez, Maria X Maldonado-Gomez, João Carlos Gomes-Neto, Hatem Kittana, Hua Ding, Robert Schmaltz, Payal Joglekar, Roberto Jiménez Cardona, Nathan L Marsteller, Steven W Kembel, Andrew K Benson, Daniel A Peterson, Amanda E Ramer-Tait, Jens Walter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
community ecology
gut microbiota
colonisation history
Lactobacillus
priority effect
historical contingency
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/36521

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https://elifesciences.org/articles/36521

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