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    • Insights from Characterizing Extinct Human Gut Microbiomes 

      Raul Y. Tito; Dan Knights; Jessica Metcalf; Alexandra J. Obregon-Tito; Lauren Cleeland; Fares Najar; Bruce Roe; Karl Reinhard; Kristin Sobolik; Samuel Belknap; Morris Foster; Paul Spicer; Rob Knight; Cecil M. Lewis Jr (PLos One, 2012-12-12)
      In an effort to better understand the ancestral state of the human distal gut microbiome, we examine feces retrieved from archaeological contexts (coprolites). To accomplish this, we pyrosequenced the 16S rDNA V3 region ...