We are excited to see this in print! This work describes the broad phenotypic conservation of E. coli found in IBD patients and argues that a focus on genetic characterization may miss numerous phenotypes that are not readily predicted or predictable. We hope that some of the ideas here gain traction and provoke new ways of thinking about how intestinal microbes might drive changes in the host that are associated with IBD.

https://academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ibd/izy312/5128780?redirectedFrom=fulltext