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The evolution of cooperation within the gut microbiota

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  • Seth Rakoff-Nahoum

    (Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)

  • Kevin R. Foster

    (University of Oxford)

  • Laurie E. Comstock

    (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)

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.

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  • Seth Rakoff-Nahoum & Kevin R. Foster & Laurie E. Comstock, 2016. "The evolution of cooperation within the gut microbiota," Nature, Nature, vol. 533(7602), pages 255-259, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:533:y:2016:i:7602:d:10.1038_nature17626
    DOI: 10.1038/nature17626
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