Metabolically similar cohorts of bacteria exhibit strong cooccurrence patterns with diet items and eukaryotic microbes in lizard guts
Abstract Gut microbiomes perform essential services for their hosts, including helping them to digest food and manage pathogens and parasites. Performing these services requires a diverse and constantly changing set of metabolic functions from the bacteria in the microbiome. The metabolic repertoire...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2019-11-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5691 |