Opinion: Conservation and stewardship of the human microbiome.

Kieran C. O’Doherty, Josh D. Neufeld, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, Humphrey Gardner, David S. Guttman, and Robert G. Beiko Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1; Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1; Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6; Department of Translational Medicine, Infection, AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA 02451; Department of Cell and Systems Biology, Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3B2; and Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3R 4R2