Potential and active functions in the gut microbiota of a healthy human cohort

Abstract Background The study of the gut microbiota (GM) is rapidly moving towards its functional characterization by means of shotgun meta-omics. In this context, there is still no consensus on which microbial functions are consistently and constitutively expressed in the human gut in physiological...

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Main Authors: Alessandro Tanca, Marcello Abbondio, Antonio Palomba, Cristina Fraumene, Valeria Manghina, Francesco Cucca, Edoardo Fiorillo, Sergio Uzzau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0293-3