The Gut Microbiota of Rural Papua New Guineans: Composition, Diversity Patterns, and Ecological Processes

Cell Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 527-538

  Martínez, Inés ^a,b   Stegen, James C ^c   Maldonado Gómez, Maria X ^b   Eren, Murat A ^d   Siba, Peter M ^e   Greenhill, Andrew R ^e,f   Walter, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; COMAMONADACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORIOBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; HELICOBACTERACEAE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PAPUA NEW GUINEAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RURAL POPULATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; UNITED STATES; DNA BARCODING; FECES; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADULT; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84928587108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.049     Document Type: Article

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