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SUBMITTER: Larsen OFA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794854 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Larsen Olaf F A OFA Claassen Eric E
Scientific reports 20180201 1
Although numerous reports link a decreased diversity of the gut microbiota to a declined health status, to date no mechanistic motivation for this exists. Here, we show by applying first principles basic graph theory on small networks that higher diversity within such a network indeed leads to more efficient systems and redundancy. Our results quantitatively support earlier hypothetical considerations on gut microbiota richness with respect to these parameters. Our simulations show that higher s ...[more]