Evolution in a Community Context: towards Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Adaptive Evolution in the Human Gut Microbiota over Short Time Scales

How important is adaptive evolution to the unique diversity that we can observe for each individual human gut microbiome? How do gut microbes evolve in response to changes in their environment, and how does evolution in real time impact microbial functionality in the context of host health? My int...

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Main Author: Pauline Deirdre Scanlan
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/25e67ee02e7b4f4bb3e0127d210a6e30
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Summary:How important is adaptive evolution to the unique diversity that we can observe for each individual human gut microbiome? How do gut microbes evolve in response to changes in their environment, and how does evolution in real time impact microbial functionality in the context of host health? My interdisciplinary research uses in vitro