@article{bc36d67792dc42a2a073d8d2db5500dd,
title = "Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial diversity in the human intestine",
abstract = "The human gut is populated with as many as 100 trillion cells, whose collective genome, the microbiome, is a reflection of evolutionary selection pressures acting at the level of the host and at the level of the microbial cell. The ecological rules that govern the shape of microbial diversity in the gut apply to mutualists and pathogens alike.",
author = "Ley, {Ruth E.} and Peterson, {Daniel A.} and Gordon, {Jeffrey I.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Lars Angenent, Justin Sonnenburg, Buck Samuel, Jian Xu, John F. Rawls, and Fredrik B{\"a}ckhed for helpful comments. Work from our lab cited in this review has been supported by grants from the NIH (DK30292, DK58529, T32-DK07130 [R.E.L.], T32-CA09547 [D.A.P.]), the NSF (033284), the Ellison Medical Foundation, and the W.M. Keck Foundation. ",
year = "2006",
month = feb,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1016/j.cell.2006.02.017",
language = "English",
volume = "124",
pages = "837--848",
journal = "Cell",
issn = "0092-8674",
number = "4",
}