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SUBMITTER: Wexler AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4822603 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wexler Aaron G AG Bao Yiqiao Y Whitney John C JC Bobay Louis-Marie LM Xavier Joao B JB Schofield Whitman B WB Barry Natasha A NA Russell Alistair B AB Tran Bao Q BQ Goo Young Ah YA Goodlett David R DR Ochman Howard H Mougous Joseph D JD Goodman Andrew L AL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160308 13
The human gut microbiome is a dynamic and densely populated microbial community that can provide important benefits to its host. Cooperation and competition for nutrients among its constituents only partially explain community composition and interpersonal variation. Notably, certain human-associated Bacteroidetes--one of two major phyla in the gut--also encode machinery for contact-dependent interbacterial antagonism, but its impact within gut microbial communities remains unknown. Here we repo ...[more]