Components of a Neanderthal gut microbiome recovered from fecal sediments from El Salt

Components of a Neanderthal gut microbiome recovered from fecal sediments from El Salt

Simone Rampelli, Silvia Turroni and colleagues report ancient bacterial profiles of fecal sediments from four stratigraphic units of El Salt Middle Paleolithic site in Spain. The results of this study suggest a core human gut microbiome that could have been shared by Neanderthals and modern humans,...

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Main Authors: Simone Rampelli, Silvia Turroni, Carolina Mallol, Cristo Hernandez, Bertila Galván, Ainara Sistiaga, Elena Biagi, Annalisa Astolfi, Patrizia Brigidi, Stefano Benazzi, Cecil M. Lewis, Christina Warinner, Courtney A. Hofman, Stephanie L. Schnorr, Marco Candela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01689-y

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