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Gut microbial communities often contain many Bacteroides or their close relatives, Prevotella, but not both. Prevotella strains are associated with plant-rich diets but are also linked with chronic inflammatory conditions. In 2015, papers probed the genomic diversity of Prevotella strains and interactions of Prevotella copri with its host and other bacteria.

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  1. Ruth Ley is at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, USA and Department of Microbiome Science, 467 Biotech, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Spemannstrasse 35, Tübingen 72076, Germany.,
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Ley, R. Prevotella in the gut: choose carefully.Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 13, 69–70 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2016.4

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