The human gut microbiome: Ecology and recent evolutionary changes

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2011, Pages 411-429

  Walter, Jens ^a   Ley, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amylase; Ecological theory; Host microbe interactions; Human genetics; Microbial diversity; Niche

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIET; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIUM; GEMELLA HAEMOLYSANS; GRANULICATELLA; HABITAT; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; LARGE INTESTINE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MOUTH CAVITY; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; ROTHIA; RUMINOCOCCUS; SMALL INTESTINE ABSORPTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STOMACH; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; VEILLONELLA; WEISSELLA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; METAGENOME;

EID: 80051856839     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-090110-102830     Document Type: Review

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