Large-scale genome-wide analysis links lactic acid bacteria from food with the gut microbiome

Here, Pasolli et al. perform a large-scale genome-wide comparative analysis of publicly available and newly sequenced food and human metagenomes to investigate the prevalence and diversity of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), indicating food as a major source of LAB species in the human gut.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Edoardo Pasolli, Francesca De Filippis, Italia E. Mauriello, Fabio Cumbo, Aaron M. Walsh, John Leech, Paul D. Cotter, Nicola Segata, Danilo Ercolini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16438-8