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Rules of the game for microbiota

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Are the dynamics of our microbial communities unique to us or does everyone's microbiota follow the same rules? The emerging insights into this question could be of relevance to health and disease. See Letter p.259

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Figure 1: Learning from similarities and differences in our microbes.

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  1. Karoline Faust and Jeroen Raes are in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven–University of Leuven, and in the VIB, Center for the Biology of Disease, Leuven 3000, Belgium.,

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  2. K.F. is also in the Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.,

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