Host and gut microbiota symbiotic factors: lessons from inflammatory bowel disease and successful symbionts

@article{Ballal2011HostAG,
  title={Host and gut microbiota symbiotic factors: lessons from inflammatory bowel disease and successful symbionts},
  author={Sonia Arora Ballal and Carey Ann Gallini and N. Segata and Curtis Huttenhower and Wendy S. Garrett},
  journal={Cellular Microbiology},
  year={2011},
  volume={13},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:205529660}
}
Considering features of human resident gut bacteria provides the opportunity to understand how microbes have achieved their symbiont status, and high‐throughput approaches are becoming increasingly practical for functionally characterizing the gut microbiota as a community.
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