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The Effect of Diet on Gut Microbiota in Humans Living in Different Environments: A Metagenomic Approach

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In the twentieth century, our knowledge of the gut microbiota was constrained by the ability to describe and study the biological functions of less than a 100 cultivable bacteria (Finegold et al. 1983). The species we described until 2000 were also the most abundant ones, and given the special attention of funding agencies toward pathogens, we fundamentally ignored the genome to functions relation for the vast majority of our commensal, except in the case of a handful of bacterial species used in food production.

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  1. Fondazione Edmund Mach, IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all’Adige (Trento), Italy

    Carlotta De Filippo & Duccio Cavalieri

  2. Department of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Florence, Viale G. Pieraccini 6, 50139, Florence, Italy

    Carlotta De Filippo & Duccio Cavalieri

  3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Florence, Meyer Children Hospital, Viale G. Pieraccini 24, 50139, Florence, Italy

    Paolo Lionetti

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De Filippo, C., Cavalieri, D., Lionetti, P. (2012). The Effect of Diet on Gut Microbiota in Humans Living in Different Environments: A Metagenomic Approach. In: Nelson, K., Jones-Nelson, B. (eds) Genomics Applications for the Developing World. Advances in Microbial Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2182-5_17

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