Subsistence strategies in traditional societies distinguish gut microbiomes
City Of Hope National Medical Center · Universidad Científica del Sur · +8 more institutions
Abstract
Recent studies suggest that gut microbiomes of urban-industrialized societies are different from those of traditional peoples. Here we examine the relationship between lifeways and gut microbiota through taxonomic and functional potential characterization of faecal samples from hunter-gatherer and traditional agriculturalist communities in Peru and an urban-industrialized community from the US. We find that in addition to taxonomic and metabolic differences between urban and traditional lifestyles, hunter-gatherers form a distinct sub-group among traditional peoples. As observed in previous studies, we find that Treponema are characteristic of traditional gut microbiomes. Moreover, through genome…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 20.93
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- 100%
- References
- 38
Authors
20- AJAlexandra J. Obregón-TitoCorresponding
City Of Hope National Medical Center, Universidad Científica del Sur, City of Hope, University of Oklahoma
- RYRaúl Y. Tito
Universidad Científica del Sur, University of Oklahoma
- JLJessica L. Metcalf
University of Colorado Boulder, City of Hope
- KSKrithivasan Sankaranarayanan
University of Oklahoma
- JCJosé C. Clemente
University of Colorado Boulder, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Topics & keywords
- Microbiome
- Subsistence agriculture
- Biology
- Clade
- Evolutionary biology
- Zoology
- Treponema
- Metagenomics
- Sustainable cities and communities