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Figure 4. Illustration depicting anatomy of the mouse stomach. The anatomy of the gerbil stomach is similar. The nonglandular forestomach is the site of dense colonization by lactobacilli, which substantially contribute to the differences in the gastric microbiota of humans and rodents.
