Caenorhabditis microbiota: worm guts get populated
Until recently, almost nothing has been known about the natural microbiota of the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Reporting their research in BMC Biology, Dirksen and colleagues describe the first sequencing effort to characterize the gut microbiota of environmentally isolated C. elegans and...
Main Authors: | Clark, Laura C., Hodgkin, Jonathan |
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860763/ |
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