Genomics has revolutionized every aspect of microbiology. Now, 13 years after the first bacterial genome was sequenced, it is important to pause and consider what has changed in microbiology research as a consequence of genomics. In this article, we review the evolving field of bacterial typing an...
The genome sequences of many species of the human gut microbiome remain unknown, largely owing to challenges in cultivating microorganisms under laboratory conditions. Here we address this problem by reconstructing 60,664 draft prokaryotic genomes from 3
A current concept considers the multicellular host and its associated microbiota as a functional entity called the “holobiont,” in which evolutionary selection likely occurs between the host and the microbes but also among microbes [15]. Although extensive evidence supports the co-evolution of binary...
we show that the initial colonization events are strongly influenced by the host but not by the silicone tube, while the subsequent bacteria-bacteria interactions are the main driver of bacterial succession. Interestingly, the recolonization pattern on adult hosts resembles the ontogenetic colonization su...
Methanomassiliicoccales are a recently identified order of methanogens that are diverse across global environments particularly the gastrointestinal tracts of animals; however, their metabolic capacities are defined via a limited number of cultured strai
to reconstruct the multiple sequence alignment of 71 core bacterial genes. Bacterial species are colored by phylum. *The bacterial species only found in males.FThe diversity of isolated genomes was compared with the total diversity observed in the 16S sequence data (as shown in genus level) obtai...
The simplest definition of a microorganism, or microbe, is an organism that is too small to be seen by human vision, i.e. can only be seen with a microscope. Of course, microbes are much more complex and diverse than this definition implies. First off, microbes can be single-celled orga...
It is caused by the obligate intra-cellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi, whose classification is described in Figure 1. Infections are transmitted by the larvae (chiggers) of the trombiculid mite [5]. Globally, chiggers of the genus Leptotrombidium, particularly Leptotrombidium deliense, are...
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THE GBA Gastrointestinal motor and sensory components send mes- sages to the central nervous system and the return response to the intestine is the definition of the brain–gut axis (6). Figure 1 shows the complexity and the modifiers of GBA-related signal- ing pathways and the multiorgan ...