New Computational Strategy Reveals Genes that May Help Microbes Adapt to the Gut (IMAGE)

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New Computational Strategy Reveals Genes that May Help Microbes Adapt to the Gut

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An illustration of an association between gut prevalence and gene presence across phylogenetically related microbes. In this example, the microbes carrying a particular gene have higher gut prevalences, while their close phylogenetic 'neighbors' lack the gene and have lower prevalences.

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Patrick Bradley

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