Dead guts spill history of extinct microbes
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 17:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Extinct microbes in fecal samples from archaeological sites across the world resemble those found in present-day rural African communities more than they resemble the microbes found in the gut of cosmopolitan US adults, according to research published December 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Cecil Lewis and colleagues from the University of Oklahoma.