Critical Role for a Subset of Intestinal Macrophages in Shaping Gut Microbiota in Adult Zebrafish

Summary: The gut microbiota is strongly influenced by environmental factors, although host contribution is far less understood. We leveraged macrophage-deficient interferon regulatory factor irf8 zebrafish mutants to investigate the role of macrophages in this process. In conventionally raised adult...

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Main Authors: Alison M. Earley, Christina L. Graves, Celia E. Shiau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718314554