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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 ...
    • Phylotyping and Functional Analysis of Two Ancient Human Microbiomes 

      Raúl Y. Tito; Simone Macmil; Graham Wiley; Fares Najar; Lauren Cleeland; Chunmei Qu; Ping Wang; Frederic Romagne; Sylvain Leonard; Agustín Jiménez Ruiz; Karl Reinhard; Bruce A. Roe; Cecil M. Lewis Jr. (PLos One, 2008-11-11)
      BackgroundThe Human Microbiome Project (HMP) is one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research. Primary interests of the HMP include the distinctiveness of different gut microbiomes, the factors ...