| gut microflora may facilitate adaptation to anthropic habitat: a comparative study in rattus. | anthropophilic species ("commensal" species) that are completely dependent upon anthropic habitats experience different selective pressures particularly in terms of food than their noncommensal counterparts. using a next-generation sequencing approach, we characterized and compared the gut microflora community of 53 commensal rattus rattus and 59 noncommensal rattus satarae captured in 10 locations in the western ghats, india. we observed that, while species identity was important in characteriz ... | 2018 | 30038748 |