2024
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1469543
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

The human gut metacommunity as a conceptual aid in the development of precision medicine

Gerald W. Tannock

Abstract: Human gut microbiomes (microbiotas) are highly individualistic in taxonomic composition but nevertheless are functionally similar. Thus, collectively, they comprise a “metacommunity.” In ecological terminology, the assembly of human gut microbiomes is influenced by four processes: selection, speciation, drift, and dispersal. As a result of fortuitous events associated with these processes, individual microbiomes are taxonomically “tailor-made” for each host. However, functionally they are “off-the-shelf” becau… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

0
0
0

Publication Types

Select...

Relationship

0
0

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 0 publications
references
References 105 publications
0
0
0
Order By: Relevance

No citations

Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?