Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time

Whether mammal–microbiome interactions are persistent and specific over evolutionary time is controversial. Here we show that host phylogeny and major dietary shifts have affected the distribution of different gut bacterial lineages and did so on vastly different bacterial phylogenetic resolutions....

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Main Authors: Mazel, Florent, Sanders, Jon G., Lavergne, Sebastien, Thuiller, Wilfried, Groussin, Mathieu, Smillie, Chris S, Alm, Eric J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110114
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0942-7217
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8202-5222
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364