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Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary Science

Microbial Similarity between Students in a Common Dormitory Environment Reveals the Forensic Potential of Individual Microbial Signatures

Miles Richardson, Neil Gottel, Jack A. Gilbert, Simon Lax
Mark J. Bailey, Editor
Miles Richardson
aDepartment of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
bIntegrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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cDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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cDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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Simon Lax
dPhysics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01054-19
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01054-19
PubMed 
31363029

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History 
  • Received April 25, 2019
  • Accepted July 1, 2019
  • Published online July 30, 2019.

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Copyright © 2019 Richardson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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  1. Miles Richardsona,b,
  2. Neil Gottelc,
  3. Jack A. Gilbertc,
  4. Simon Laxd
  1. aDepartment of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
  2. bIntegrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
  3. cDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
  4. dPhysics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Address correspondence to Miles Richardson, miles.richardson{at}columbia.edu, or Simon Lax, simonlax{at}mit.edu.
  • Citation Richardson M, Gottel N, Gilbert JA, Lax S. 2019. Microbial similarity between students in a common dormitory environment reveals the forensic potential of individual microbial signatures. mBio 10:e01054-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01054-19.

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Miles Richardson, Neil Gottel, Jack A. Gilbert, Simon Lax
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