"By analyzing those two datasets, we found out that spacer acquisition is really slow in human gut microbiome: On average, it would take 2.7 to 2.9 years for a bacterial species to acquire a ...
With regard to the Human Microbiome Project, it raises the question of whether community profiling using 16S rRNA genes should be used to select samples for metagenomic sequencing as unifying ...
The human microbiome is a complicated system of microbial cells. The number of genes that make up the microbiome is far greater than the number of genes in the cells that make up the human body.