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Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

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Bacteroides species contain a considerable number of genes involved in sphingolipid and steroid hormone synthesis, suggesting their potential for modulating signaling in mammalian cells
Zou et al. 2019b Nat Biotechnol 37: 179-185

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1,520 Reference Genomes from Cultivated Human Gut Bacteria Enable Functional Microbiome Analyse
Zou et al. 2019b Nat Biotechnol 37: 179-185
Bacteroides-derived sphingolipids are critical for maintaining intestinal homeostasis and symbiosis
Brown et al. 2019 Cell Host Microbe 25: 668-680

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