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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Schnorr SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3996546 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20140415
Human gut microbiota directly influences health and provides an extra means of adaptive potential to different lifestyles. To explore variation in gut microbiota and to understand how these bacteria may have co-evolved with humans, here we investigate the phylogenetic diversity and metabolite production of the gut microbiota from a community of human hunter-gatherers, the Hadza of Tanzania. We show that the Hadza have higher levels of microbial richness and biodiversity than Italian urban contro ...[more]