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INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 674-681Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icx013
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- National Science Foundation [IOS-1638630]
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Research on host-associated microbial communities has grown rapidly. Despite the great body of work, inclusion of microbiota-related questions into integrative and comparative biology is still lagging behind other disciplines. The purpose of this paper is to offer an introduction into the basic tools and techniques of host-microbe research. Specifically, what considerations should be made before embarking on such projects (types of samples, types of controls)? How is microbiome data analyzed and integrated with data measured from the hosts? How can researchers experimentally manipulate the microbiome? With this information, integrative and comparative biologists should be able to include host-microbe studies into their research and push the boundaries of both fields.
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