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. 2021 Aug 3;33(8):1514-1515.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2021.07.014.

Keeping the clock running: The microbiome as a pivotal timekeeper

Margaret McFall-Ngai  1
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Keeping the clock running: The microbiome as a pivotal timekeeper

Margaret McFall-Ngai. Cell Metab. .
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Abstract

Research of animal microbiomes is demonstrating that these host-microbe partnerships are on a profound circadian rhythm. Recently in Cell, Brooks et al. (2021) report that host rhythms drive behaviors of specific microbiome members, which orchestrate a coordination of the innate immune system with the circadian clock.

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