Open AccessMicrobial Skin Inhabitants: Friends Forever
Author(s) -
Pieter C. Dorrestein,
Richard L. Gallo,
Rob Knight
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.035
Subject(s) - biology , human skin , microbial population biology , ecology , bacteria , genetics
To gain insight into the stability of the microbial communities that inhabit our skin, Oh et al., in a tour-de-force effort, map the human skin metagenomes over time. Remarkably, their data indicate that the individual, not the environment, primarily drives the composition of skin microbial communities.
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