Bacterial community mapping of the mouse gastrointestinal tract.

Keeping mammalian gastrointestinal (GI) tract communities in balance is crucial for host health maintenance. However, our understanding of microbial communities in the GI tract is still very limited. In this study, samples taken from the GI tracts of C57BL/6 mice were subjected to 16S rRNA gene sequ...

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Main Authors: Shenghua Gu, Dandan Chen, Jin-Na Zhang, Xiaoman Lv, Kun Wang, Li-Ping Duan, Yong Nie, Xiao-Lei Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3792069?pdf=render