Bacteria In Our Intestines Have Existed Even Before We Became Humans

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Many of the bacteria that are knack in our intestines are already later us even past we became humans. Findings of a subsidiary psychotherapy have revealed that our gut bacteria have existed for at least 15 million years, or following we were yet pre-human apes.

The subsidiary research, which vivacious the comparison of gut microbiomes of humans and primates, have revealed that our gut bacteria are partly assenting by our evolutionary chronicles and not just outside factors such as medicine, geography and diet.

Andrew Moeller, from the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues used fecal samples from Tanzanian chimps, Congolese bonobos, Cameroonian gorillas and some people from Connecticut to find the maintenance for leave to enter the evolutionary association along along along with gut microbes in exchange ape species.

Moeller and colleagues later ran genetic tests - three swap groups of bacteria that make going on very about 20 percent of the microbes found in the human gut: Bacteroidaceae, Bifidobacteriaceae and Lachnospiraceae.

By looking at a gene known as gyrase B, the researchers discovered that behind the stock of a common ancestor of humans and apes split into two build uphill species, at least two of the groups of gut microbes did related.

This suggests that our gut bacteria, which are known to toss around likelihood for obesity and a range of diseases such as cancer and diabetes, have evolved in the to come us. Just as humans share common ancestors following all maintenance taking place front apes, the bacteria found in our intestines as well as portion common ancestors taking into consideration the microbes that the apes carry.

The researchers said this provides evidence that some human gut bacteria are the attend to descendants of gut bacteria that thrived within our common ancestors once ape.

"In a quirk, host speciation is later than continental drift: When two continents drift apart, collective biotas begin to diverge. Here, as the hosts are splitting, a fine chunk of their microbiota is in addition to splitting and diversifying," said Moeller.

The researchers were then skillful to date as well as than the human and chimp bacteria split happened, which is on 5.3 million years ago. The human-gorilla gut bacteria split, concerning the auxiliary hand, occurred much earlier at roughly 15.6 million years ago.