Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century Middle Iron Age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ancestral sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome
R. F. Rifkin, S. Vikram, J.-B. J. Ramond, A. Rey-Iglesia, T. B. Brand, G. Porraz, A. Val, G. Hall, S. Woodborne, M. Le Bailly, M. Potgieter, S. J. Underdown, J. E. Koopman, D. A. Cowan, Y. Van de Peer, , A. J. Hansen
The paper analyzes a mid-15th century Bantu-speaker faecal specimen to understand the ancestral sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome and its response to dietary and environmental changes.
Microbiome · May 6, 2020Peer-reviewedMicrobiology