Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Deciphering functional redundancy in the human microbiome

  • Liang Tian,
  • Xu-Wen Wang,
  • Ang-Kun Wu,
  • Yuhang Fan,
  • Jonathan Friedman,
  • Amber Dahlin,
  • Matthew K. Waldor,
  • George M. Weinstock,
  • Scott T. Weiss,
  • Yang-Yu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19940-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Here, the authors develop a genome evolution model to investigate the origin of functional redundancy in the human microbiome by analyzing its genomic content network and illustrate potential ecological and evolutionary processes that may contribute to its resilience.