Missing Links: the Role of Primates in Understanding the Human Microbiome

ABSTRACT The gut microbiome can influence host energy balances and metabolic programming. While this information is valuable in a disease context, it also has important implications for understanding host energetics from an ecological and evolutionary perspective. Here I argue that gut microbial inf...

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Main Author: Katherine R. Amato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-06-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00165-19