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. 2006 Oct 20;127(2):247-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.10.005.

Love the one you're with: vertebrate guts shape their microbiota

Margaret McFall-Ngai  1
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Love the one you're with: vertebrate guts shape their microbiota

Margaret McFall-Ngai. Cell. .
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Using germ-free animals, Rawls et al. (2006) reveal that the gut of a given host can be colonized by the microbiota of another vertebrate. Remarkably, the recipient host then shapes the composition of the non-native microbiota to more closely resemble that of its native consortium.

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