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Diet-derived short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in the rumen have broad effects on the health and growth of ruminants. The microbe-G-protein-coupled receptor (GPR) and microbe-histone deacetylase (HDAC) axes migh...
Microbiome 2017 5:123
Published on: 19 September 2017
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Evergreen coniferous forests contain high stocks of organic matter. Significant carbon transformations occur in litter and soil of these ecosystems, making them important for the global carbon cycle. Due to se...
Microbiome 2017 5:122
Published on: 18 September 2017
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An approach utilizing the long-read capability of the Oxford Nanopore MinION to rapidly sequence bacterial ribosomal operons of complex natural communities was developed. Microbial fingerprinting employs domai...
Microbiome 2017 5:116
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Understanding the associations among corals, their photosynthetic zooxanthella symbionts (Symbiodinium), and coral-associated prokaryotic microbiomes is critical for predicting the fidelity and strength of coral ...
Microbiome 2017 5:120
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Urbanization is associated with an increased risk for a number of diseases, including obesity, diabetes, and cancer, which all also show associations with the microbiome. While microbial community composition ...
Microbiome 2017 5:121
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common vaginal syndrome among women in their reproductive years. It is associated with an increased risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections and complications like...
Microbiome 2017 5:119
Published on: 13 September 2017
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Natural oil seeps offer the opportunity to study the adaptation of ecosystems and the associated microbiota to long-term oil exposure. In the current study, we investigated a land-to-sea transition ecosystem c...
Microbiome 2017 5:118
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Intestinal microbiota are critical determinants of obesity and metabolic disease risk. In previous work, we showed that deletion of the cytoplasmic lipid droplet (CLD) protein perilipin-2 (Plin2) modulates gut...
Microbiome 2017 5:117
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Effective methods are needed to collect fecal samples from children for large-scale microbiota studies. Stool collected on fecal occult blood test (FOBT) cards that can be mailed provides an effective solution...
Microbiome 2017 5:114
Published on: 5 September 2017
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Infectious diseases of wildlife are increasing worldwide with implications for conservation and human public health. The microbiota (i.e. microbial community living on or in a host) could influence wildlife di...
Microbiome 2017 5:115
Published on: 5 September 2017
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Recent evidence supports that the maternal gut microbiota impacts the initial infant gut microbiota. Since the gut microbiota may play a causal role in the development of obesity, it is important to understand...
Microbiome 2017 5:113
Published on: 4 September 2017
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The Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) is a recently described expansion of the tree of life that represents more than 15% of all bacterial diversity and potentially contains over 70 different phyla. Despite this...
Microbiome 2017 5:112
Published on: 2 September 2017
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Although the plant microbiome is crucial for plant health, little is known about the significance of the seed microbiome. Here, we studied indigenous bacterial communities associated with the seeds in differen...
Microbiome 2017 5:104
Published on: 1 September 2017
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Microbiome 2017 5:111
Published on: 1 September 2017
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Learning the structure of microbial communities is critical in understanding the different community structures and functions of microbes in distinct individuals. We view microbial communities as consisting of...
Microbiome 2017 5:110
Published on: 31 August 2017
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There is growing evidence for a role of the gut microbiome in shaping behaviour relevant to many psychiatric and neurological disorders. Preclinical studies using germ-free (GF) animals have been essential in ...
Microbiome 2017 5:102
Published on: 25 August 2017
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Increasing evidence shows the importance of the commensal microbe Oxalobacter formigenes in regulating host oxalate homeostasis, with effects against calcium oxalate kidney stone formation, and other oxalate-asso...
Microbiome 2017 5:108
Published on: 25 August 2017
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Metritis is an inflammatory disease of the uterus caused by bacterial infection, particularly Bacteroides, Porphyromonas, and Fusobacterium. Bacteria from the environment, feces, or vagina are believed to be the ...
Microbiome 2017 5:109
Published on: 25 August 2017
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The fungi in the gastrointestinal tract, the gut mycobiota, are now recognised as a significant part of the gut microbiota, and they may be important to human health. In contrast to the adult gut mycobiota, the e...
Microbiome 2017 5:107
Published on: 24 August 2017
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Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are hotspots for productivity and biodiversity. Thermal pyrolysis and circulation produce fluids rich in hydrocarbons and reduced compounds that stimulate microbial activity in surr...
Microbiome 2017 5:106
Published on: 23 August 2017
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Space travel is associated with continuous low dose rate exposure to high linear energy transfer (LET) radiation. Pathophysiological manifestations after low dose radiation exposure are strongly influenced by non...
Microbiome 2017 5:105
Published on: 18 August 2017
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Animal manure is a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) that pose a potential health risk globally, especially for resistance to the antibiotics commonly used in livestock production (such as tetrac...
Microbiome 2017 5:103
Published on: 16 August 2017
Review
While often obvious for macroscopic organisms, determining whether a microbe is dead or alive is fraught with complications. Fields such as microbial ecology, environmental health, and medical microbiology eac...
Microbiome 2017 5:86
Published on: 16 August 2017
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The gut microbiota is a reservoir of opportunistic pathogens that can cause life-threatening infections in critically ill patients during their stay in an intensive care unit (ICU). To suppress gut colonizatio...
Microbiome 2017 5:88
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Many metagenome analysis tools are presently available to classify sequences and profile environmental samples. In particular, taxonomic profiling and binning methods are commonly used for such tasks. Tools av...
Microbiome 2017 5:101
Published on: 14 August 2017
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