Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial diversity in the human intestine.
Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial diversity in the human intestine.
R. Ley,D. Peterson,J. Gordon
2006 · DOI: 10.1016/J.CELL.2006.02.017
Cell · 3,273 Citations
TLDR
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 thelevel of the microbial cell.