Microbial Skin Inhabitants: Friends Forever.

Dorrestein, Pieter C; Gallo, Richard L; Knight, Rob · Cell · 2016

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

To gain insight into the stability of the microbial communities that inhabit our skin, Oh et al., in a tour-de-force effort, map the human skin metagenomes over time. Remarkably, their data indicate that the individual, not the environment, primarily drives the composition of skin microbial communities.

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