Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes.
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SUBMITTER: Moeller AH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3520023 | biostudies-other | 2012
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Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes.
Moeller Andrew H AH Degnan Patrick H PH Pusey Anne E AE Wilson Michael L ML Hahn Beatrice H BH Ochman Howard H
Nature communications 20120101
Microbes inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract tend to adopt one of three characteristic community structures, called 'enterotypes', each of which is overrepresented by a distinct set of bacterial genera. Here we report that the gut microbiotae of chimpanzees also assort into enterotypes and that these chimpanzee enterotypes are compositionally analogous to those of humans. Through the analysis of longitudinal samples, we show that the microbial signatures of the enterotypes are stable ove ...[more]
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