title: Gut and root microbiota commonalities.
abstract: Animal guts and plant roots have absorption roles for nutrient uptake and converge in harboring large, complex, and dynamic groups of microbes that participate in degradation or modification of nutrients and other substances. Gut and root bacteria regulate host gene expression, provide metabolic capabilities, essential nutrients, and protection against pathogens, and seem to share evolutionary trends.
authors.affiliation: Genomic Sciences Center, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
authors.forename: Shamayim T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Puebla
authors.forename: Luis E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Servín-Garcidueñas
authors.forename: Berenice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Marín
authors.forename: Luis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Bolaños
authors.forename: Mónica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rosenblueth
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Marco Antonio
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rogel
authors.forename: Ernesto
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ormeño-Orrillo
authors.forename: Esperanza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martínez-Romero
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism*; D058448:Biota; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000382:microbiology*; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000382:microbiology*