What do we mean when we refer toBacteroidetes populations in the human gastrointestinal microbiota?
Open Access
- 1 October 2009
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 299 (2) , 175-183
Abstract
Recent large-scale cloning studies have shown that the ratio of Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes may be important in the obesity-associated gut microbiotaKeywords
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