Love the one you're with: vertebrate guts shape their microbiota.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Using germ-free animals, Rawls et al. (2006) reveal that the gut of a given host can be colonized by the microbiota of another vertebrate. Remarkably, the recipient host then shapes the composition of the non-native microbiota to more closely resemble that of its native consortium.
Medical subject headings
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Germ-Free Life
- Mice
- Zebrafish