Opinion: Conservation and stewardship of the human microbiome

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1;
• ² Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1;
• ³ Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6;
• ⁴ Department of Translational Medicine, Infection, AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA 02451;
• ⁵ Department of Cell and Systems Biology, Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3B2; and.
• ⁶ Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3R 4R2 rbeiko@dal.ca.