What Links Light, Fat and Microbes in the Gut? (IMAGE)

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What Links Light, Fat and Microbes in the Gut?

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Epididymal fat pads of Nfil3ΔIEC (right) and Nfil3fl/fl mice fed on a high-fat, Western-style diet for 10 weeks. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 1, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Wang at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "The intestinal microbiota regulates body composition through NFIL3 and the circadian clock."

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Yuhao Wang and Lora V. Hooper

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