Ecological and Evolutionary Forces Shaping Microbial Diversity in the Human Intestine

Overview

Journal Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2006 Feb 25

PMID 16497592

Citations 1414

Authors

Ruth E Ley

Daniel A Peterson

Jeffrey I Gordon

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Abstract

The human gut is populated with as many as 100 trillion cells, whose collective genome, the microbiome, is a reflection of evolutionary selection pressures acting at the level of the host and at the level of the microbial cell. The ecological rules that govern the shape of microbial diversity in the gut apply to mutualists and pathogens alike.

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