A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota

Alexandre Almeida; Alex Mitchell; Miguel Boland; Samuel C. Forster; Gregory B. Gloor; Aleksandra Tarkowska; Trevor D. Lawley; ROBERT FINN

doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0965-1

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BiologyMetagenomicsGenomeMicrobiomeHuman microbiomeGut floraEvolutionary biologyRepertoirePhylogenetic diversityBacterial genome sizePhylogenetic treePhylogeneticsGeneticsComputational biologyGene

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Year: 2019
Type: article
Volume: 568
Issue: 7753
Pages: 499-504
Citations: 1287
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                                    Alexandre Almeida, 
                                
                                    Alex Mitchell, 
                                
                                    Miguel Boland
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2019). 
                            A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota. 
                            Nature
                            , 568
                            (7753)
                            , 499-504.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0965-1
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0965-1