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Grazing mammals rely on their ruminal microbial symbionts to convert plant structural biomass into metabolites they can assimilate. To explore how this complex metabolic system adapts to the host animal’s diet...
Microbiome 2017 5:60
Published on: 8 June 2017
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Obligate bacterial primary (P-) endosymbionts that are maternally inherited and codiverge with hosts are widespread across insect lineages with nutritionally restricted diets. Secondary (S-) endosymbionts are ...
Microbiome 2017 5:58
Published on: 6 June 2017
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Recent studies highlight the utility of quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping for determining the contribution of host genetics to interindividual variation in the microbiota. We previously demonstrated that ...
Microbiome 2017 5:59
Published on: 6 June 2017
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Bacteriophage–prokaryote dynamics and interaction are believed to be important in governing microbiome composition and ecosystem functions, yet our limited knowledge of the spatial and temporal variation in ph...
Microbiome 2017 5:57
Published on: 31 May 2017
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Interactions between pathogenic oomycetes and microbiota residing on the surface of the host plant root are unknown, despite being critical to inoculum constitution. The nature of these interactions was explor...
Microbiome 2017 5:56
Published on: 16 May 2017
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Gut microbiota play a key role in maintaining homeostasis in the human gut. Alterations in the gut microbial ecosystem predispose to Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and gut inflammatory disorders such as in...
Microbiome 2017 5:55
Published on: 15 May 2017
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Trimethylamine (TMA), produced by the gut microbiota from dietary quaternary amines (mainly choline and carnitine), is associated with atherosclerosis and severe cardiovascular disease. Currently, little infor...
Microbiome 2017 5:54
Published on: 15 May 2017
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Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by persistent sinonasal inflammation and sinus microbiome dysbiosis. The basis of this heterogeneity is poorly understood. We sought to add...
Microbiome 2017 5:53
Published on: 12 May 2017
Review
Research on the human microbiome has yielded numerous insights into health and disease, but also has resulted in a wealth of experimental artifacts. Here, we present suggestions for optimizing experimental des...
Microbiome 2017 5:52
Published on: 5 May 2017
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Aztreonam lysine for inhalation (AZLI) is an inhaled antibiotic used to treat chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in CF. AZLI improves lung function and quality of life, and reduces exacerbations-improvement...
Microbiome 2017 5:51
Published on: 5 May 2017
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Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and shows promise for treating other medical conditions associated with intestinal dysbioses. However...
Microbiome 2017 5:50
Published on: 4 May 2017
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Preclinical and clinical evidence supports the concept of bidirectional brain-gut microbiome interactions. We aimed to determine if subgroups of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) subjects can be identified based ...
Microbiome 2017 5:49
Published on: 1 May 2017
Review
After more than a century of active research, the notion that the human fetal environment is sterile and that the neonate’s microbiome is acquired during and after birth was an accepted dogma. However, recent ...
Microbiome 2017 5:48
Published on: 28 April 2017
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Salmonella is one of the most significant food-borne pathogens to affect humans and agriculture. While it is well documented that Salmonella infection triggers host inflammation, the i...
Microbiome 2017 5:47
Published on: 27 April 2017
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is characterized by unexplained persistent fatigue, commonly accompanied by cognitive dysfunction, sleeping disturbances, orthostatic intolerance, fe...
Microbiome 2017 5:44
Published on: 26 April 2017
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IL-17-producing γδT cells (γδT17) promote autoinflammatory diseases and cancers. Yet, γδT17 peripheral regulation has not been thoroughly explored especially in the context of microbiota-host interaction. The ...
Microbiome 2017 5:46
Published on: 24 April 2017
Methodology
The role of the microbiota in human health and disease has been increasingly studied, gathering momentum through the use of high-throughput technologies. Further identification of the roles of specific microbe...
Microbiome 2017 5:45
Published on: 24 April 2017
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Lake sediments harbor diverse microbial communities that cycle carbon and nutrients while being constantly colonized and potentially buried by organic matter sinking from the water column. The interaction of a...
Microbiome 2017 5:41
Published on: 8 April 2017
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It is well known that the microbiota of high-fat (HF) diet-induced obese mice differs from that of lean mice, but to what extent, this difference reflects the obese state or the diet is unclear. To dissociate ...
Microbiome 2017 5:43
Published on: 8 April 2017
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Fungi are a diverse eukaryotic group of degraders, pathogens, and symbionts, with many lineages known only from DNA sequences in soil, sediments, air, and water.
Microbiome 2017 5:42
Published on: 8 April 2017
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Early-life exposure to household pets has the capacity to reduce risk for overweight and allergic disease, especially following caesarean delivery. Since there is some evidence that pets also alter the gut mic...
Microbiome 2017 5:40
Published on: 6 April 2017
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The intestinal microbial communities and their temporal dynamics are gaining increasing interest due to the significant implications for human health. Recent studies have shown the dynamic behavior of the gut ...
Microbiome 2017 5:39
Published on: 24 March 2017
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Symbiosis is a phenomenon that allows organisms to colonise a wide range of environments and occupy a variety of ecological niches in marine environments. Large benthic foraminifera (LBF) are crucial marine ca...
Microbiome 2017 5:38
Published on: 23 March 2017
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While human gut microbiomes vary significantly in taxonomic composition, biological pathway abundance is surprisingly invariable across hosts. We hypothesized that healthy microbiomes appear functionally redun...
Microbiome 2017 5:36
Published on: 23 March 2017
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Deep terrestrial biosphere waters are separated from the light-driven surface by the time required to percolate to the subsurface. Despite biofilms being the dominant form of microbial life in many natural env...
Microbiome 2017 5:37
Published on: 23 March 2017
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