Lifestyle trumps geography in determining makeup of gut microbiome
Monday, April 6, 2020 - 15:52
in Biology & Nature
Apes in U.S. zoos host bacterial communities in their intestinal tracts that are more similar to those of people who eat a non-Western diet than to the gut makeup of their wild ape cousins, according to a new study from Washington University in St. Louis. Further, even wild apes that have never encountered antibiotics harbor microbes with antibiotic resistance genes.