Amniotic fluid from healthy term pregnancies does not harbor a detectable microbial community.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Otitis media (OM) imposes a great burden of disease in indigenous populations around the world, despite a variety of treatment and prevention programs. Improved understanding of the pathogenesis of OM in indigenous populations is required to advance treatment and reduce prevalence. We conducted a systematic ...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Coleman A,Wood A,Bialasiewicz S,Ware RS,Marsh RL,Cervin A

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A majority of indoor residential microbes originate from humans, pets, and outdoor air and are not adapted to the built environment (BE). Consequently, a large portion of the microbes identified by DNA-based methods are either dead or metabolically inactive. Although many exceptions have been noted, the ribo...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Gomez-Silvan C,Leung MHY,Grue KA,Kaur R,Tong X,Lee PKH,Andersen GL

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput amplicon sequencing spanning conserved portions of microbial genomes (16s rRNA and ITS) was used in the present study to describe the endophytic microbiota associated with three apple varieties, "Royal Gala," "Golden Delicious," and "Honey Crisp," and two rootstocks, M.9 and M.M.111. The obje...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Liu J,Abdelfattah A,Norelli J,Burchard E,Schena L,Droby S,Wisniewski M

更新日期：2018-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The human microbiome refers to the genetic composition of microorganisms in a particular location in the human body. Emerging evidence over the past many years suggests that the microbiome constitute drivers of human fate almost at par with our genome and epigenome. It is now well accepted after decades of disbelief t...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Silverstein RB,Mysorekar IU

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nasopharynx is a reservoir for pathogens associated with respiratory illnesses, such as asthma. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been used to characterize the nasopharyngeal microbiome during health and disease. Most studies so far have surveyed the nasopharynx as a whole; however, less is known abou...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Pérez-Losada M,Crandall KA,Freishtat RJ

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disruption of the gut microbiota homeostasis may induce low-grade inflammation leading to obesity-associated diseases. A major protective mechanism is to use the multi-layered mucus structures to keep a safe distance between gut epithelial cells and microbiota. To investigate whether pesticides would induce ...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Liang Y,Zhan J,Liu D,Luo M,Han J,Liu X,Liu C,Cheng Z,Zhou Z,Wang P

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat residues are a crucial determinant of the epidemiology of Septoria tritici blotch, as they support the sexual reproduction of the causal agent Zymoseptoria tritici. We aimed to characterize the effect of infection with this fungal pathogen on the microbial communities present on wheat residues and to i...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Kerdraon L,Barret M,Laval V,Suffert F

更新日期：2019-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut microbiota is increasingly recognized for its important or even decisive role in health. As it becomes clear that microbiota and host mutually affect and depend on each other in an intimate relationship, a holistic view of the gut microbiota-host association imposes itself. Ideally, a stable state of equ...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： van de Guchte M,Blottière HM,Doré J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Determining the role of fomites in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is essential in the hospital setting and will likely be important outside of medical facilities as governments around the world make plans to ease COVID-19 public health restrictions and attempt to safely reopen economies. Expanding COVID-19 t...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Minich JJ,Ali F,Marotz C,Belda-Ferre P,Chiang L,Shaffer JP,Carpenter CS,McDonald D,Gilbert J,Allard SM,Allen EE,Knight R,Sweeney DA,Swafford AD

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 activity and burial remained largely unexplored in aquatic sediments. We aimed to relate taxonomic co...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Wurzbacher C,Fuchs A,Attermeyer K,Frindte K,Grossart HP,Hupfer M,Casper P,Monaghan MT

更新日期：2017-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The interconnectivities of built and natural environments can serve as conduits for the proliferation and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Several studies have compared the broad spectrum of ARGs (i.e., "resistomes") in various environmental compartments, but there is a need to identify u...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Gupta S,Arango-Argoty G,Zhang L,Pruden A,Vikesland P

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microorganisms have long been associated with oxic and anoxic degradation of hydrocarbons in oil reservoirs and oil production facilities. While we can readily determine the abundance of microorganisms in the reservoir and study their activity in the laboratory, it has been challenging to resolve what microb...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Liu YF,Galzerani DD,Mbadinga SM,Zaramela LS,Gu JD,Mu BZ,Zengler K

更新日期：2018-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Taxonomic profiles of vaginal microbial communities can be sorted into a discrete number of categories termed community state types (CSTs). This approach is advantageous because collapsing a hyper-dimensional taxonomic profile into a single categorical variable enables efforts such as data exploration, epide...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： France MT,Ma B,Gajer P,Brown S,Humphrys MS,Holm JB,Waetjen LE,Brotman RM,Ravel J

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have recurrently estimated lower heritability estimates than familial studies. Many explanations have been suggested to explain these lower estimates, including that a substantial proportion of genetic variation and gene-by-environment interactions are unmeasured in typica...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Douglas GM,Bielawski JP,Langille MGI

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soil microorganisms can mediate the occurrence of plant diseases. Potato common scab (CS) is a refractory disease caused by pathogenic Streptomyces that occurs worldwide, but little is known about the interactions between CS and the soil microbiome. In this study, four soil-root system compartments (geocaulo...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Shi W,Li M,Wei G,Tian R,Li C,Wang B,Lin R,Shi C,Chi X,Zhou B,Gao Z

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Archaea are one of the least-studied members of the gut-dwelling autochthonous microbiota. Few studies have reported the dominance of methanogens in the archaeal microbiome (archaeome) of the human gut, although limited information regarding the diversity and abundance of other archaeal phylotypes is availab...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Kim JY,Whon TW,Lim MY,Kim YB,Kim N,Kwon MS,Kim J,Lee SH,Choi HJ,Nam IH,Chung WH,Kim JH,Bae JW,Roh SW,Nam YD

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole-genome "shotgun" (WGS) metagenomic sequencing is an increasingly widely used tool for analyzing the metagenomic content of microbiome samples. While WGS data contains gene-level information, it can be challenging to analyze the millions of microbial genes which are typically found in microbiome experim...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Minot SS,Willis AD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of culture-independent nucleic acid techniques, such as ribosomal RNA gene cloning library analysis, has unveiled the tremendous microbial diversity that exists in natural environments. In sharp contrast to this great achievement is the current difficulty in cultivating the majority of bacterial spec...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Gao W,Navarroli D,Naimark J,Zhang W,Chao SH,Meldrum DR

更新日期：2013-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our understanding of gut microbiota has been limited primarily to findings from human and laboratory animals, but what shapes the gut microbiota in nature remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we conducted a comprehensive study of gut microbiota of a well-studied North American red squirrel (Tamiasciuru...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Ren T,Boutin S,Humphries MM,Dantzer B,Gorrell JC,Coltman DW,McAdam AG,Wu M

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The interplay between hosts and their associated microbiome is now recognized as a fundamental basis of the ecology, evolution, and development of both players. These interdependencies inspired a new view of multicellular organisms as "metaorganisms." The goal of the Collaborative Research Center "Origin and...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Rausch P,Rühlemann M,Hermes BM,Doms S,Dagan T,Dierking K,Domin H,Fraune S,von Frieling J,Hentschel U,Heinsen FA,Höppner M,Jahn MT,Jaspers C,Kissoyan KAB,Langfeldt D,Rehman A,Reusch TBH,Roeder T,Schmitz RA,Schulenb

更新日期：2019-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Culture-independent molecular surveys targeting conserved marker genes, most notably 16S rRNA, to assess microbial diversity remain semi-quantitative due to variations in the number of gene copies between species. RESULTS:Based on 2,900 sequenced reference genomes, we show that 16S rRNA gene copy number (GC...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Angly FE,Dennis PG,Skarshewski A,Vanwonterghem I,Hugenholtz P,Tyson GW

更新日期：2014-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing followed by clustering of short sequences into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) is widely used for microbiome profiling. However, clustering of short 16S rRNA gene reads into biologically meaningful OTUs is challenging, in part because nucleotide variation...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Franzén O,Hu J,Bao X,Itzkowitz SH,Peter I,Bashir A

更新日期：2015-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enteric fermentation by farmed ruminant animals is a major source of methane and constitutes the second largest anthropogenic contributor to global warming. Reducing methane emissions from ruminants is needed to ensure sustainable animal production in the future. Methane yield varies naturally in sheep and i...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Kamke J,Kittelmann S,Soni P,Li Y,Tavendale M,Ganesh S,Janssen PH,Shi W,Froula J,Rubin EM,Attwood GT

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metagenomics is revolutionizing the study of microorganisms and their involvement in biological, biomedical, and geochemical processes, allowing us to investigate by direct sequencing a tremendous diversity of organisms without the need for prior cultivation. Unicellular eukaryotes play essential roles in mo...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Levy Karin E,Mirdita M,Söding J

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metagenomic datasets provide an opportunity to study horizontal gene transfer (HGT) on the level of a microbial community. However, current HGT detection methods cannot be applied to community-level datasets or require reference genomes. Here, we present MetaCHIP, a pipeline for reference-independent HGT ide...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Song W,Wemheuer B,Zhang S,Steensen K,Thomas T

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A westernized diet comprising a high caloric intake from animal fats is known to influence the development of pathological inflammatory conditions. However, there has been relatively little focus upon the implications of such diets for the progression of infectious disease. Here, we investigated the influenc...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Las Heras V,Clooney AG,Ryan FJ,Cabrera-Rubio R,Casey PG,Hueston CM,Pinheiro J,Rudkin JK,Melgar S,Cotter PD,Hill C,Gahan CGM

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies describing the human gut microbiome in healthy and diseased states have emphasized the bacterial component, but the fungal microbiome (i.e., the mycobiome) is beginning to gain recognition as a fundamental part of our microbiome. To date, human gut mycobiome studies have primarily been disease c...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Nash AK,Auchtung TA,Wong MC,Smith DP,Gesell JR,Ross MC,Stewart CJ,Metcalf GA,Muzny DM,Gibbs RA,Ajami NJ,Petrosino JF

更新日期：2017-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:pH is frequently reported as the main driver for prokaryotic community structure in soils. However, pH changes are also linked to "spillover effects" on other chemical parameters (e.g., availability of Al, Fe, Mn, Zn, and Cu) and plant growth, but these indirect effects on the microbial communities are rarel...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Lammel DR,Barth G,Ovaskainen O,Cruz LM,Zanatta JA,Ryo M,de Souza EM,Pedrosa FO

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health. Microorganisms equipped with AMR genes are suggested to have partially emerged from natural habitats; however, this hypothesis remains inconclusive so far. To understand the consequences of the introduction of exogenic antimicrobials into nat...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Wicaksono WA,Kusstatscher P,Erschen S,Reisenhofer-Graber T,Grube M,Cernava T,Berg G

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The caecal microbiota plays a key role in chicken health and performance, influencing digestion and absorption of nutrients, and contributing to defence against colonisation by invading pathogens. Measures of productivity and resistance to pathogen colonisation are directly influenced by chicken genotype, bu...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Pandit RJ,Hinsu AT,Patel NV,Koringa PG,Jakhesara SJ,Thakkar JR,Shah TM,Limon G,Psifidi A,Guitian J,Hume DA,Tomley FM,Rank DN,Raman M,Tirumurugaan KG,Blake DP,Joshi CG

更新日期：2018-06-23 00:00:00