Linked read sequencing reveals the ecological resilience of a human gut microbial community during antibiotic treatment
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The gastrointestinal metagenome is aggregation of all the genomes of gut microbiota. The gut flora is established after birth, by which time the intestinal epithelium and the intestinal mucosal barrier that it secretes developed its tolerance and also provides a barrier to pathogenic organisms. The relationship between gut flora and humans is not merely commensal but rather a mutualistic relationship. […]