Similarity of the dog and human gut microbiomes in gene content and response to diet

Abstract Background Gut microbes influence their hosts in many ways, in particular by modulating the impact of diet. These effects have been studied most extensively in humans and mice. In this work, we used whole genome metagenomics to investigate the relationship between the gut metagenomes of dog...

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Main Authors: Luis Pedro Coelho, Jens Roat Kultima, Paul Igor Costea, Coralie Fournier, Yuanlong Pan, Gail Czarnecki-Maulden, Matthew Robert Hayward, Sofia K. Forslund, Thomas Sebastian Benedikt Schmidt, Patrick Descombes, Janet R. Jackson, Qinghong Li, Peer Bork
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0450-3