ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2008
Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 818 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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818 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Have genetic targets for faecal pollution diagnostics and source tracking revolutionized water quality analysis yet?FEMS microbiology reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Gut Prevotella stercorea associates with protection against infection in rural African children.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- Predictive Functional Profiling of Allergy-Associated Microbiota with PICRUSt2.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027Article
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- The Gut-Iron-Immune Axis in Severe Anaemia and Bacteraemia.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Exploring the Development of Wild Microbiomes in the Eastern Fence Lizard.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Gut microbiota as key mediators of animal acclimation to temperature changes: mechanisms and interventions.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Review
- The faecal microbiota and its influence on fur seal (Arctocephalus sp.) physiology.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Gut microbiota restructured by social isolation: Evidence for sex-specific response patterns.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
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- Symbiotic bacteria may support calcium carbonate precipitation in the Gulf toadfish.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- The Importance of Sociality and Diet in Explaining Variation in the Bonobo Gut Microbiota.American journal of primatology · 2026Article
- The Dairy Ruminant Gut Microbiome: Profile, Responsiveness to Seasonality and Impact on Milk Quality.Environmental microbiology · 2026Review
- The effects of housing temperature on mouse physiology and implications for disease modeling.Lab animal · 2026Review
- A lagging recovery: the delayed restoration of gut microbial diversity in Rhinolophus sinicus post-hibernation.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Antagonistic Mechanisms of Probiotic Aliivibrio sp. Strain Vl2 Against Moritella viscosa: Evidence from Co-cultivation and Targeted Transcriptomic Analysis.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Article
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Abstract
In this Analysis we use published 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences to compare the bacterial assemblages that are associated with humans and other mammals, metazoa and free-living microbial communities that span a range of environments. The composition of the vertebrate gut microbiota is influenced by diet, host morphology and phylogeny, and in this respect the human gut bacterial community is typical of an omnivorous primate. However, the vertebrate gut microbiota is different from free-living communities that are not associated with animal body habitats. We propose that the recently initiated international Human Microbiome Project should strive to include a broad representation of humans, as well as other mammalian and environmental samples, as comparative analyses of microbiotas and their microbiomes are a powerful way to explore the evolutionary history of the biosphere.
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