Structural variation in the gut microbiome associates with host health

Structural variation in the gut microbiome associates with host health

Structural variation in the gut microbiome associates with host health, Published online: 27 March 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1065-y

The authors systematically characterize structural variation in the genomes of gut microbiota and show that they are associated with bacterial fitness and with host risk factors, and that examining genes coded in these regions facilitates investigation of mechanisms that may underlie these associations.