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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Evolutionary relationships of wild hominids recapitulated by gut microbial communities
PLoS Biology, Volume 8, No. 11, Article e1000546, Year 2010
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Multiple factors over the lifetime of an individual, including diet, geography, and physiologic state, will influence the microbial communities within the primate gut. To determine the source of variation in the composition of the microbiota within and among species, we investigated the distal gut microbial communities harbored by great apes, as present in fecal samples recovered within their native ranges. We found that the branching order of host-species phylogenies based on the composition of these microbial communities is completely congruent with the known relationships of the hosts. Although the gut is initially and continuously seeded by bacteria that are acquired from external sources, we establish that over evolutionary timescales, the composition of the gut microbiota among great ape species is phylogenetically conserved and has diverged in a manner consistent with vertical inheritance. © 2010 Ochman et al.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Ochman, Howard
United States, Tucson
The University of Arizona
United States, New Haven
Yale University
Worobey, Michael
United States, Tucson
The University of Arizona
Kuo, Chihhorng
United States, Tucson
The University of Arizona
Taiwan, Taipei
Academia Sinica, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology
Ndjango, Jean Bosco N.
Democratic Republic Congo, Kisangani
Université de Kisangani
Peeters, Martine F.
France, Montpellier
Ird Centre de Montpellier
Hahn, Beatrice H.
United States, Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hugenholtz, Philip
United States, Berkeley
U.s. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Statistics
Citations: 465
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pbio.1000546
ISSN:
15449173
e-ISSN:
15457885