This month's Genome Watch highlights the variation in gut microbiota across different human communities and explores how this is associated with lifestyle and diet.
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Kumar, N., Forster, S. Microbiota shuns the modern world. Nat Rev Microbiol 15, 710 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2017.136
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