Fitness advantage of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron capsular polysaccharide in the mouse gut depends on the resident microbiota

Many microbiota-based therapeutics rely on our ability to introduce a microbe of choice into an already-colonized intestine. In this study, we used genetically barcoded Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (B. theta) strains to quantify population bottlenecks experienced by a B. theta population during colo...

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Main Authors: Daniel Hoces, Giorgia Greter, Markus Arnoldini, Melanie L Stäubli, Claudia Moresi, Anna Sintsova, Sara Berent, Isabel Kolinko, Florence Bansept, Aurore Woller, Janine Häfliger, Eric Martens, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, Shinichi Sunagawa, Claude Loverdo, Emma Slack
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2023-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/81212