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Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms - PMC

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Microbes in the gastrointestinal tract are under selective pressure to manipulate host eating behavior to increase their fitness, sometimes at the expense of host fitness. Microbes may do this through two potential strategies: (i) generating cravings ...

Bioessays . 2014 Aug 8;36(10):940–949. doi: 10.1002/bies.201400071 Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms Joe Alcock Joe Alcock 1) Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA Find articles by Joe Alcock 1) , Carlo C Maley Carlo C Maley 2) Center for Evolution and Cancer, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA, USA 3) Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 4) Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, (Institute for Advan

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