ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Functional diversity of microbial ecologies estimated from ancient human coprolites and dental calculus.
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Abstract
Human microbiome studies are increasingly incorporating macroecological approaches, such as community assembly, network analysis and functional redundancy to more fully characterize the microbiome. Such analyses have not been applied to ancient human microbiomes, preventing insights into human microbiome evolution. We address this issue by analysing published ancient microbiome datasets: coprolites from Rio Zape (
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