The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash

Nature

Volumn 548, Issue 7665, 2017, Pages 43-51

  Foster, Kevin R ^a   Schluter, Jonas ^b   Coyte, Katharine Z ^a,b,c   Rakoff Nahoum, Seth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HOST; HUMAN; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOLUTION; HEALTH; IMMUNOLOGY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HEALTH; HUMANS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85026895683     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23292     Document Type: Review

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