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Special Issue Perspective | Ecological and Evolutionary Science

Seven Billion Microcosms: Evolution within Human Microbiomes

Tami D. Lieberman
Tami D. Lieberman
aInstitute for Medical Engineering and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
bDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00171-17
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  • Received November 6, 2017
  • Accepted January 11, 2018
  • Published online March 20, 2018.

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Copyright © 2018 Lieberman. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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  1. Tami D. Liebermana,b
  1. aInstitute for Medical Engineering and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  2. bDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Address correspondence to tami{at}mit.edu.
  • ↵Conflict of Interest Disclosures: T.D.L. has nothing to disclose.

  • Citation Lieberman TD. 2018. Seven billion microcosms: evolution within human microbiomes. mSystems 3:e00171-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00171-17.

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    • ABSTRACT
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    • EVOLUTION IN THE MICROBIOME AND ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH
    • RAPID EVOLUTION FOR STUDYING HUMAN MICROBIOMES
    • HUMAN MICROBIOMES FOR STUDYING RAPID ADAPTATION
    • CULTURE-BASED APPROACHES ENABLE A TYPE OF “SINGLE-CELL” ANALYSIS
    • EXCITING TIME FOR STUDYING WITHIN-PERSON EVOLUTION IN THE MICROBIOME
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KEYWORDS

evolution
human microbiome
microbial ecology
within-person evolution
evolutionary biology
genomics
intestinal colonization

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