Members of the gut community
Genomes of bugs from the gut reveal information about host-symbiont relationships.
Mar 27, 2003
The human gut is home to an astonishing number of microorganisms — 500 to 1000 bacterial species. Many of these live at peace with their hosts, providing essential functions for metabolism and the immune system, and they offer an attractive model to study symbiotic evolution. In the March 28
Jian Xu and colleagues at the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, US, sequenced the complete 6.26 Mb genome of the Gram-negative anaerobe