Endospores and other lysis-resistant bacteria comprise a widely shared core community within the human microbiota

Endospore-formers in the human microbiota are well adapted for host-to-host transmission, and an emerging consensus points to their role in determining health and disease states in the gut. The human gut, more than any other environment, encourages the maintenance of endospore formation, with recent...

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Main Authors: Bullock, Kevin, Allegretti, Jessica R., Clish, Clary B., Kearney, Sean M, Gibbons, Sean Michael, Poyet, Mathilde, Gurry, Thomas Jerome, Alm, Eric J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119495
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