The shrinking human gut microbiome
Abstract
Mammals harbor complex assemblages of gut bacteria that are deeply integrated with their hosts' digestive, immune, and neuroendocrine systems. Recent work has revealed that there has been a substantial loss of gut bacterial diversity from humans since the divergence of humans and chimpanzees. This bacterial depauperation began in humanity's ancient evolutionary past and has accelerated in recent years with the advent of modern lifestyles. Today, humans living in industrialized societies harbor the lowest levels of gut bacterial diversity of any primate for which metagenomic data are available, a condition that may increase risk of infections, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic syndrome. Some missing gut bacteria may remain within under-sampled human populations, whereas others may be globally extinct and unrecoverable.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Rapid and substantial contractions in gut bacterial diversity, a consequence of modern lifestyles, may increase the risk of infections and immune-related diseases.
“rapid and substantial contractions in diversity, a consequence of modern lifestyles, may increase the risk of infections and immune related diseases (Moeller, 2017).”
From Viral Infections, the Microbiome, and Probiotics (2021) · cites this paper as Moeller, 2017
Divergence from chimpanzees about six million years ago was accompanied by a substantial loss of gut bacterial diversity.
“Our divergence from chimpanzees some six million years ago has been accompanied by a substantial loss of gut bacterial diversity (Moeller, 2017).”
From Viral Infections, the Microbiome, and Probiotics (2021) · cites this paper as Moeller, 2017
Cites
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
Caporaso, J. G., Kuczynski, J., Stombaugh, J., Bittinger, K., Bushman, F. D., Costello, E. K., Fierer, N., Peña, A. G., Goodrich, J. K., Gordon, J. I., et al. (2010) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.f.303 · Cited by 34,887 · see citing works
An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest
Turnbaugh, P. J., Ley, R. E., Mahowald, M. A., Magrini, V., Mardis, E. R., & Gordon, J. I. (2006) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature05414 · Cited by 12,444 · see citing works
A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins
Turnbaugh, P. J., Hamady, M., Yatsunenko, T., Cantarel, B. L., Duncan, A., Ley, R. E., Sogin, M. L., Jones, W. J., Roe, B. A., Affourtit, J. P., et al. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature07540 · Cited by 7,823 · see citing works
Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography
Yatsunenko, T., Rey, F. E., Manary, M. J., Trehan, I., Dominguez-Bello, M. G., Contreras, M., Magris, M., Hidalgo, G., Baldassano, R. N., Anokhin, A. P., et al. (2012) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature11053 · Cited by 7,815 · see citing works
Linking long-term dietary patterns with gut microbial enterotypes
Wu, G. D., Chen, J., Hoffmann, C., Bittinger, K., Chen, Y.-Y., Keilbaugh, S. A., Bewtra, M., Knights, D., Walters, W. A., Knight, R., et al. (2011) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1208344 · Cited by 6,513 · see citing works
De Filippo, C., Cavalieri, D., Di Paola, M., Ramazzotti, M., Poullet, J. B., Massart, S., Collini, S., Pieraccini, G., & Lionetti, P. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1005963107 · Cited by 5,579 · see citing works
Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body
Sender, R., Fuchs, S., & Milo, R. (2016) · PLOS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002533 · Cited by 5,425 · see citing works
Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers
Le Chatelier, E., Nielsen, T., Qin, J., Prifti, E., Hildebrand, F., Falony, G., Almeida, M., Arumugam, M., Batto, J.-M., Kennedy, S., et al. (2013) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature12506 · Cited by 4,662 · see citing works
Evolution of mammals and their gut microbes
Ley, R. E., Hamady, M., Lozupone, C., Turnbaugh, P. J., Ramey, R. R., Bircher, J. S., Schlegel, M. L., Tucker, T. A., Schrenzel, M. D., Knight, R., et al. (2008) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1155725 · Cited by 3,747 · see citing works
The expensive-tissue hypothesis: The brain and the digestive system in human and primate evolution
Aiello, L. C., & Wheeler, P. (1995) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/204350 · Cited by 2,291 · see citing works
How colonization by microbiota in early life shapes the immune system
Gensollen, T., Iyer, S. S., Kasper, D. L., & Blumberg, R. S. (2016) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aad9378 · Cited by 2,044 · see citing works
Interactions between the microbiota, immune and nervous systems in health and disease
Fung, T. C., Olson, C. A., & Hsiao, E. Y. (2017) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.4476 · Cited by 1,900 · see citing works
Diet-induced extinctions in the gut microbiota compound over generations
Sonnenburg, E. D., Smits, S. A., Tikhonov, M., Higginbottom, S. K., Wingreen, N. S., & Sonnenburg, J. L. (2016) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature16504 · Cited by 1,730 · see citing works
Gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers
Schnorr, S. L., Candela, M., Rampelli, S., Centanni, M., Consolandi, C., Basaglia, G., Turroni, S., Biagi, E., Peano, C., Severgnini, M., et al. (2014) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms4654 · Cited by 1,317 · see citing works
Developmental regulation of intestinal angiogenesis by indigenous microbes via Paneth cells
Stappenbeck, T. S., Hooper, L. V., & Gordon, J. I. (2002) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.202604299 · Cited by 1,095 · see citing works
Chu, D. M., Ma, J., Prince, A. L., Antony, K. M., Seferovic, M. D., & Aagaard, K. M. (2017) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/nm.4272 · Cited by 1,063 · see citing works
Jakobsson, H. E., Abrahamsson, T. R., Jenmalm, M. C., Harris, K., Quince, C., Jernberg, C., Björkstén, B., Engstrand, L., & Andersson, A. F. (2014) · Gut · doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2012-303249 · Cited by 1,011 · see citing works
Langdon, A. E., Crook, N., & Dantas, G. A. (2016) · Genome Medicine · doi:10.1186/s13073-016-0294-z · Cited by 917 · see citing works
Early life antibiotic‐driven changes in microbiota enhance susceptibility to allergic asthma
Russell, S. L., Gold, M. J., Hartmann, M., Willing, B. P., Thorson, L., Wlodarska, M., Gill, N., Blanchet, M., Mohn, W. W., McNagny, K. M., et al. (2012) · The EMBO Reports · doi:10.1038/embor.2012.32 · Cited by 883 · see citing works
The microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians
Clemente, J. C., Pehrsson, E. C., Blaser, M. J., Sandhu, K., Gao, Z., Wang, B., Magris, M., Hidalgo, G., Contreras, M., Noya-Alarcón, Ó., et al. (2015) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500183 · Cited by 851 · see citing works
Antibiotic use and its consequences for the normal microbiome
Blaser, M. J. (2016) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aad9358 · Cited by 836 · see citing works
Gut Microbiota Orchestrates Energy Homeostasis during Cold
Chevalier, C., Stojanović, O., Colin, D. J., Suarez-Zamorano, N., Tarallo, V., Veyrat-Durebex, C., Rigo, D., Fabbiano, S., Stevanović, A., Hagemann, S., et al. (2015) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.004 · Cited by 829 · see citing works
Intestinal microbiome is related to lifetime antibiotic use in Finnish pre-school children
Korpela, K., Salonen, A., Virta, L. J., Kekkonen, R. A., Forslund, K., Bork, P., & de Vos, W. M. (2016) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms10410 · Cited by 698 · see citing works
Ou, J., Carbonero, F., Zoetendal, E. G., DeLany, J. P., Wang, M., Newton, K., Gaskins, H. R., & O’Keefe, S. J. (2013) · The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · doi:10.3945/ajcn.112.056689 · Cited by 646 · see citing works
Tap, J., Derrien, M., Törnblom, H., Brazeilles, R., Cools-Portier, S., Doré, J., Störsrud, S., Le Nevé, B., Öhman, L., & Simrén, M. (2017) · Gastroenterology · doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2016.09.049 · Cited by 642 · see citing works
Youngster, I., Russell, G. H., Pindar, C., Ziv-Baran, T., Sauk, J., & Hohmann, E. L. (2014) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.2014.13875 · Cited by 629 · see citing works
Diet-Microbiota Interactions Mediate Global Epigenetic Programming in Multiple Host Tissues
Krautkramer, K. A., Kreznar, J. H., Romano, K. A., Vivas, E. I., Barrett-Wilt, G. A., Rabaglia, M. E., Keller, M. P., Attie, A. D., Rey, F. E., & Denu, J. M. (2016) · Molecular Cell · doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2016.10.025 · Cited by 607 · see citing works
The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East
Zeder, M. A. (2011) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/659307 · Cited by 593 · see citing works
Subsistence strategies in traditional societies distinguish gut microbiomes
Obregon-Tito, A. J., Tito, R. Y., Metcalf, J., Sankaranarayanan, K., Clemente, J. C., Ursell, L. K., Zech Xu, Z., Van Treuren, W., Knight, R., Gaffney, P. M., et al. (2015) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms7505 · Cited by 587 · see citing works
Martínez, I., Stegen, J. C., Maldonado-Gómez, M. X., Eren, A. M., Siba, P. M., Greenhill, A. R., & Walter, J. (2015) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.049 · Cited by 576 · see citing works
Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids
Moeller, A. H., Caro‐Quintero, A., Mjungu, D. C., Georgiev, A. V., Lonsdorf, E. V., Muller, M. N., Pusey, A. E., Peeters, M., Hahn, B. H., & Ochman, H. (2016) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aaf3951 · Cited by 570 · see citing works
Self-citationObese-type gut microbiota induce neurobehavioral changes in the absence of obesity
Bruce-Keller, A. J., Salbaum, J. M., Luo, M., Blanchard, E., Taylor, C. M., Welsh, D. A., & Berthoud, H.-R. (2015) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.07.012 · Cited by 563 · see citing works
Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons
Tung, J., Barreiro, L. B., Burns, M. B., Grenier, J., Lynch, J., Grieneisen, L., Jeanne Altmann, A., Alberts, S. C., Blekhman, R., & Archie, E. A. (2015) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.05224 · Cited by 524 · see citing works
Captivity humanizes the primate microbiome
Clayton, J. B., Vangay, P., Huang, H., Ward, T., Hillmann, B., Al‐Ghalith, G. A., Travis, D. A., Long, H. T., Tuan, B. V., Minh, V. V., et al. (2016) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1521835113 · Cited by 510 · see citing works
Greenwood, C., Morrow, A. L., Lagomarcino, A. J., Altaye, M., Taft, D. H., Yu, Z., Newburg, D. S., Ward, D. V., & Schibler, K. R. (2014) · The Journal of Pediatrics · doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.01.010 · Cited by 410 · see citing works
Metagenome Sequencing of the Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Gut Microbiota
Rampelli, S., Schnorr, S. L., Consolandi, C., Turroni, S., Severgnini, M., Peano, C., Brigidi, P., Crittenden, A. N., Henry, A. G., & Candela, M. (2015) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.055 · Cited by 399 · see citing works
Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution
Moeller, A. H., Li, Y., Ngole, E. M., Ahuka‐Mundeke, S., Lonsdorf, E. V., Pusey, A. E., Peeters, M., Hahn, B. H., & Ochman, H. (2014) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1419136111 · Cited by 336 · see citing works
Self-citationFood and evolution : toward a theory of human food habits
Harris, M., & Ross, E. B. (1987) · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · Cited by 335 · see citing works
Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee pan-microbiome
Moeller, A. H., Foerster, S., Wilson, M. L., Pusey, A. E., Hahn, B. H., & Ochman, H. (2016) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500997 · Cited by 296 · see citing works
Self-citationHuman gut microbiota community structures in urban and rural populations in Russia
Tyakht, A., Kostryukova, E., Popenko, A., Belenikin, M. S., Pavlenko, A. V., Larin, A. K., Karpova, I. Y., Selezneva, O. V., Semashko, T. A., Ospanova, E. A., et al. (2013) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms3469 · Cited by 283 · see citing works
Gomez, A., Petrzelkova, K. J., Burns, M. B., Yeoman, C. J., Amato, K. R., Vlckova, K., Modry, D., Todd, A., Jost Robinson, C. A., Remis, M. J., et al. (2016) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.013 · Cited by 248 · see citing works
Morton, E. R., Lynch, J., Froment, A., Lafosse, S., Heyer, E., Przeworski, M., Blekhman, R., & Ségurel, L. (2015) · PLOS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005658 · Cited by 231 · see citing works
Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Persistent Hominin Carnivory
Ferraro, J. V., Plummer, T. W., Pobiner, B. L., Oliver, J. S., Bishop, L. C., Braun, D. R., Ditchfield, P. W., Seaman, J. W., Binetti, K. M., Seaman, J. W., et al. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062174 · Cited by 224 · see citing works
Insights from Characterizing Extinct Human Gut Microbiomes
Tito, R. Y., Knights, D., Metcalf, J. L., Obregón-Tito, A. J., Cleeland, L. M., Najar, F. Z., Roe, B. A., Reinhard, K. J., Sobolik, K. D., Belknap, S. L., et al. (2012) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051146 · Cited by 217 · see citing works
Youngster, I., Mahabamunuge, J., Systrom, H. K., Sauk, J. S., Khalili, H., Levin, J., Kaplan, J. L., & Hohmann, E. L. (2016) · BMC Medicine · doi:10.1186/s12916-016-0680-9 · Cited by 184 · see citing works
Phylogenetic and ecological factors impact the gut microbiota of two Neotropical primate species
Amato, K. R., Martínez‐Mota, R., Righini, N., Raguet-Schofield, M., Corcione, F. P., Marini, E., Humphrey, G. C., Gogul, G., Gaffney, J., Lovelace, E., et al. (2015) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3507-z · Cited by 123 · see citing works
Li, K., Dan, Z., Gesang, L., Wang, H., Zhou, Y., Du, Y., Ren, Y., Shi, Y., & Nie, Y. (2016) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155863 · Cited by 119 · see citing works
Unique Features of Ethnic Mongolian Gut Microbiome revealed by metagenomic analysis
Liu, W., Zhang, J., Wu, C., Cai, S., Huang, W., Chen, J., Xi, X., Liang, Z., Hou, Q., Zhou, B., et al. (2016) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep34826 · Cited by 119 · see citing works
The Gut Microbiome of Wild Lemurs: A Comparison of Sympatric Lemur catta and Propithecus verreauxi
Fogel, A. T. (2015) · Folia Primatologica · doi:10.1159/000369971 · Cited by 64 · see citing works
Huang, Y. J., & Boushey, H. A. (2014) · Annals of the American Thoracic Society · doi:10.1513/annalsats.201306-187mg · Cited by 45 · see citing works
Maile, A., Kumar, K. V., Muruganandam, N., Chander, M. P., Kartick, C., & Vijayachari, P. (2016) · Anaerobe · doi:10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.03.002 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
The gut microbiota and its biogeography
McCallum, G., & Tropini, C. (2023) · Nature Reviews Microbiology · doi:10.1038/s41579-023-00969-0 · Cited by 342 · see citing works
Potential Effects of Horizontal Gene Exchange in the Human Gut
Lerner, A., Matthias, T., & Aminov, R. I. (2017) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2017.01630 · Cited by 200 · see citing works
Viral Infections, the Microbiome, and Probiotics
Harper, A., Vijayakumar, V., Ouwehand, A. C., ter Haar, J., Obis, D., Espadaler, J., Binda, S., Desiraju, S., & Day, R. (2021) · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fcimb.2020.596166 · Cited by 177 · see citing works
Roles of the gut microbiota in the adaptive evolution of mammalian species
Moeller, A. H., & Sanders, J. G. (2020) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0597 · Cited by 170 · see citing works
Self-citationScannapieco, F. A., & Dongari‐Bagtzoglou, A. I. (2021) · Journal of Periodontology · doi:10.1002/jper.21-0120 · Cited by 125 · see citing works
Gut microbiota and old age: Modulating factors and interventions for healthy longevity
Coman, V., & Vodnar, D. C. (2020) · Experimental Gerontology · doi:10.1016/j.exger.2020.111095 · Cited by 124 · see citing works
The Hygiene Hypothesis – Learning From but Not Living in the Past
Pfefferle, P. I., Keber, C. U., Cohen, R. M., & Garn, H. (2021) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.635935 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
The mother–offspring dyad: microbial transmission, immune interactions and allergy development
Jenmalm, M. C. (2017) · Journal of Internal Medicine · doi:10.1111/joim.12652 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
Poussin, C., Sierro, N., Boué, S., Battey, J. N. D., Scotti, E., Belcastro, V., Peitsch, M. C., Ivanov, N. V., & Hoeng, J. (2018) · Drug Discovery Today · doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2018.06.005 · Cited by 89 · see citing works
Probiotics: Current Landscape and Future Horizons
Day, R. L., Harper, A. J., Woods, R. M., Davies, O. G., & Heaney, L. M. (2019) · Future Science OA · doi:10.4155/fsoa-2019-0004 · Cited by 88 · see citing works
Effects of domestication on the gut microbiota parallel those of human industrialization
Reese, A. T., Chadaideh, K. S., Diggins, C. E., Schell, L. D., Beckel, M., Callahan, P., Ryan, R., Thompson, M. E., & Carmody, R. N. (2021) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.60197 · Cited by 88 · see citing works
Potential contribution of beneficial microbes to face the COVID-19 pandemic
Antunes, A. E. C., Vinderola, G., Xavier-Santos, D., & Sivieri, K. (2020) · Food Research International · doi:10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109577 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
Vandeputte, D., & Joossens, M. (2020) · Microorganisms · doi:10.3390/microorganisms8111638 · Cited by 83 · see citing works
Kok, C. R., Rose, D. J., & Hutkins, R. W. (2022) · Annual Review of Food Science and Technology · doi:10.1146/annurev-food-060721-015516 · Cited by 79 · see citing works
Ntemiri, A., Ghosh, T. S., Gheller, M. E., Tran, T. T. T., Blum, J., Pellanda, P., Vlčková, K., Neto, M. C., Howell, A. B., Thalacker‐Mercer, A. E., et al. (2020) · Nutrients · doi:10.3390/nu12092800 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Microbiome and the immune system: From a healthy steady-state to allergy associated disruption
Mezouar, S., Chantran, Y., Michel, J., Fabre, A., Dubus, J. ‐., Léone, M., Sérémé, Y., Mège, J., Ranque, S., Desnues, B., et al. (2018) · Human Microbiome Journal · doi:10.1016/j.humic.2018.10.001 · Cited by 69 · see citing works
Widespread extinctions of co-diversified primate gut bacterial symbionts from humans
Sanders, J. G., Sprockett, D. D., Li, Y., Mjungu, D. C., Lonsdorf, E. V., Ndjango, J.-B. N., Georgiev, A. V., Hart, J. A. L., Sanz, C., Morgan, D., et al. (2023) · Nature Microbiology · doi:10.1038/s41564-023-01388-w · Cited by 63 · see citing works
Self-citationErtürk-Hasdemir, D., & Kasper, D. L. (2018) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/nyas.13660 · Cited by 65 · see citing works
Gut Microbiome Characteristics in feral and domesticated horses from different geographic locations
Li, A., Vinderola, G., Endo, A., Kantanen, J., Jingfeng, C., Binetti, A. G., Burns, P., Qingmiao, S., Suying, D., Yu, Z., et al. (2022) · Communications Biology · doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03116-2 · Cited by 59 · see citing works
Personalized Nutrition Through The Gut Microbiota: Current Insights And Future Perspectives
Vandeputte, D. (2020) · Nutrition Reviews · doi:10.1093/nutrit/nuaa098 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
Hou, L., Sun, B., & Yang, Y. (2020) · Animals · doi:10.3390/ani10010107 · Cited by 46 · see citing works
Roslund, M. I., Laitinen, O. H., & Sinkkonen, A. (2024) · People and Nature · doi:10.1002/pan3.10638 · Cited by 31 · see citing works
Primate phageomes are structured by superhost phylogeny and environment
Gogarten, J. F., Rühlemann, M. C., Archie, E. A., Tung, J., Akoua-Koffi, C. G., Bang, C., Deschner, T., Muyembé‐Tamfum, J., Robbins, M. M., Schubert, G., et al. (2021) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2013535118 · Cited by 28 · see citing works
Early-life food nutrition, microbiota maturation and immune development shape life-long health
Zhou, X., Du, L., Shi, R., Chen, Z., Zhou, Y., & Li, Z. (2018) · Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition · doi:10.1080/10408398.2018.1485628 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
Elechi, J. O. G., Sirianni, R., Conforti, F. L., Cione, E., & PELLEGRINO, M. A. (2023) · Foods · doi:10.3390/foods12122286 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
Schropp, N., Bauer, A., Stanislas, V., Huang, K. D., Lesker, T.-R., Bielecka, A. A., Strowig, T., & Michels, K. B. (2025) · Microbiome · doi:10.1186/s40168-024-02016-3 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
Michaelis, L., Berg, L., & Maier, L. (2023) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.06.004 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
Bacteria in the ageing gut: did the taming of fire promote a long human lifespan?
Danchin, A. (2018) · Environmental Microbiology · doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14255 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Lifestyle-Induced Microbial Gradients: An Indian Perspective
Singh, R., Haque, M. M., & Mande, S. S. (2019) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.02874 · Cited by 13 · see citing works
Labenz, J., Borkenstein, D., Heil, F. J., Madisch, A., Tappe, U., Schmidt, H., Terjung, B., Klymiuk, I., Horvath, A., Gross, M., et al. (2023) · Frontiers in Oncology · doi:10.3389/fonc.2022.1078315 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
Fanfan, D., Mulligan, C. J., Groer, M. E., Mai, V., Weaver, M. T., Huffman, F. G., & Lyon, D. (2023) · American Journal of Biological Anthropology · doi:10.1002/ajpa.24850 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
Sun, B., Hou, L., & Yang, Y. (2020) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0109.v1 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Musciotto, F., Dobón, B., Greenacre, M. J., Mira, Á., Chaudhary, N., Salalι, G. D., Gerbault, P., Schlaepfer, R., Astete, L. H., Ngales, M. L., et al. (2023) · Evolutionary Human Sciences · doi:10.1017/ehs.2023.4 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Oral Microbiome Metabarcoding in Two Invasive Small Mammals from New Zealand
Emami‐Khoyi, A., Benmazouz, I., Paterson, A. M., Ross, J. G., Murphy, E., Bothwell, J., Alizadeh, H., van Vuuren, B. J., & Teske, P. R. (2020) · Diversity · doi:10.3390/d12070278 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Han, S., Zhang, Q., Ding, Y., Chu, P., Zhang, J., Shi, J. P., Jia, S., Yang, C., Lu, J. L., & Wang, Y. (2021) · Frontiers in Pediatrics · doi:10.3389/fped.2021.723617 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Quraishi, M. N., Moakes, C. A., Yalchin, M., Segal, J. P., Ives, N. J., Magill, L., Manzoor, S. E., Gerasimidis, K., Loi, S., McMullan, C., et al. (2024) · Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation · doi:10.3310/ycjd4579 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Human gut microbiota, nutrition and health
Bi, Y., & Yang, R. (2018) · Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version) · doi:10.1360/n972018-00641 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Effects of Eubiotic Lignocellulose on the Gut Microbiota and Metabolism of ChickensPreprint
Sun, B., Hou, L., & Yang, Y. (2020) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-49629/v1 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and Update on Probiotics Recommendations
Henry, D. E., & Rao, V. V. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-33-6236-9_6 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Dickey, J. R., Mercer, N. M., Kuijpers, M. C. M., Props, R., & Jackrel, S. L. (2025) · mSystems · doi:10.1128/msystems.01462-24 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Roles for non-human primate-associated phage diversity in improving medicine and public health
Gogarten, J. F. (2022) · Evolution Medicine and Public Health · doi:10.1093/emph/eoac006 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Evolutionary Perspectives on the Human Gut Microbiome
Doms, S., Hermes, B. M., & Baines, J. F. (2018) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90545-7_5 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Focus on gut microbiota in age-associated body changes
Agafonova, E. V. (2021) · Medical alphabet · doi:10.33667/2078-5631-2021-9-44-51 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Humans and the Microbiome: We Are Many
Lucius, R. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-78821-5_4 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Iglesia, I., Moreno, L. A., & Rodrı́guez, G. (2020) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-813862-5.00003-7 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Traditional Breads from Cyprus. The “Arkatena”
Katsounotou, M., Xenofontos, E., & Tsaltas, D. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-23352-4_5
Precision profiling for tailored health solutions
Srivastava, S., Nag, R., Eba, A., Hussain, A., & Raza, S. T. (2026) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-40483-2.00018-2
From ancestral diets to modern dysbiosis: evolutionary insights from ancient gut microbiomes
Bobu, A. M., Cucu, A. I., Bianucci, R., & Costache-Enache, I.-I. (2026) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.3389/fevo.2026.1922647
Heidari, H., Brimacombe, M., & Lawrence, D. A. (2026) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2026.1952549
- Authors
- Moeller, A. H.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Moeller, Andrew H
- ORCID
- Moeller, Andrew H
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Microbiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-08
- Volume
- 38
- Pages
- 30-35
- ISSN
- 1369-5274 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2607711721
- Cited by
- 50
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 0.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Microbiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
- Keywords
- gut microbiota, human evolution, chimpanzees, modern human populations, host-microbe interactions, immune system, metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disease, infection risk
- MeSH terms
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Biological Evolution, Humans, Life Style, Microbiota
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review