Hydrogenotrophic microbiota distinguish native Africans from African and European Americans

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-315

  Nava, Gerardo M ^a,c   Carbonero, Franck ^a   Ou, Junhai ^b   Benefiel, Ann C ^a   O'Keefe, Stephen J ^b   Gaskins, H Rex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84860872103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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