Prokaryotic horizontal gene transfer within the human holobiont: ecological-evolutionary inferences, implications and possibilities
Abstract The ubiquity of horizontal gene transfer in the living world, especially among prokaryotes, raises interesting and important scientific questions regarding its effects on the human holobiont i.e., the human and its resident bacterial communities considered together as a unit of selection. S...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-09-01
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| Series: | Microbiome |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0551-z |