Resumen de Microbial skin inhabitants: friends forever

Pieter C. Dorrestein, Richard L. Gallo, Rob Knight

• To gain insight into the stability of the microbial communities that inhabit our skin, Oh et al., in a tour-de-force effort, map the human skin metagenomes over time. Remarkably, their data indicate that the individual, not the environment, primarily drives the composition of skin microbial communities.