Functional Metagenomic Investigations of the Human Intestinal Microbiota

Functional Metagenomic Investigations of the Human Intestinal Microbiota

The human intestinal microbiota encode multiple critical functions impacting human health, including, metabolism of dietary substrate, prevention of pathogen invasion, immune system modulation, and provision of a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes accessible to pathogens. The complexity of th...

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Main Authors: Aimee Marguerite Moore, Christian eMunck, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, Gautam eDantas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
antibiotic resistome
functional metagenomics
human intestinal microbiota
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2011.00188/full

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