• DocumentCode
    42287
  • Title

    My Body, My Microbiome: Microbes outnumber cells, but what are they doing?

  • Author

    Mertz, Leslie

  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Nov.-Dec. 2014
  • Firstpage
    40
  • Lastpage
    45
  • Abstract
    The human body is a microbe?s playground: interspersed among the 37 trillion cells of the human body [1] are at least ten times as many bacteria, fungi, viruses, and archaea. That amounts to 100 times as many microbial genes as human genes.
  • Keywords
    Bioinformatics; Diseases; Genetics; Genomics; Microorganisms; Research and development;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pulse, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    2154-2287
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPUL.2014.2355309
  • Filename
    6955916
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=42287