The evolution of cooperation within the gut microbiota

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum (), Kevin R. Foster and Laurie E. Comstock
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Seth Rakoff-Nahoum: Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Kevin R. Foster: University of Oxford
Laurie E. Comstock: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Nature, 2016, vol. 533, issue 7602, 255-259

Abstract: Little is known about cooperative behaviour among the gut microbiota; here, limited cooperation is demonstrated for Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, but Bacteroides ovatus is found to extracellularly digest a polysaccharide not for its own use, but to cooperatively feed other species such as Bacteroides vulgatus from which it receives return benefits.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nature17626

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