The gut microbiome of Baka forager-horticulturalists from Cameroon is optimized for wild plant foods

Summary: The human gut microbiome is losing biodiversity, due to the “microbiome modernization process” that occurs with urbanization. To keep track of it, here we applied shotgun metagenomics to the gut microbiome of the Baka, a group of forager-horticulturalists from Cameroon, who combine hunting...

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Main Authors: Simone Rampelli, Sandrine Gallois, Federica D’Amico, Silvia Turroni, Marco Fabbrini, Daniel Scicchitano, Marco Candela, Amanda Henry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224004322