Citation:
Bashan, A. ; Gibson, T. E. ; Friedman, J. ; Carey, V. J. ; Weiss, S. T. ; Hohmann, E. L. ; Liu, Y. - Y. . Universality Of Human Microbial Dynamics. 2016, 534, 259 - 262.
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2016Abstract:
A new computational method to characterize the dynamics of human-associated microbial communities is applied to data from two large-scale metagenomic studies, and suggests that gut and mouth microbiomes of healthy individuals are subjected to universal (that is, host-independent) dynamics, whereas skin microbiomes are shaped by the host environment; the method paves the way to designing general microbiome-based therapies.