Gastrointestinal microbiota play a vital role in maintaining organismal health, through
facilitating nutrient uptake, detoxification and interactions with the immune system. The …

Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

The gut microbiota of vertebrates are essential to host health. Most non-model vertebrates,
however, lack even a basic description of natural gut microbiota biodiversity. Here, we …

Fusarium wilt, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum JH Owen, results in
considerable yield losses for cucumber plants. A bio-organic fertilizer (BIO), which was a …

To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of
interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …

The intestinal microbiota have now been shown to largely affect host health through various
functional roles in terms of nutrition, immunity, and other physiological systems. However …

The Antarctic is a pristine environment that contributes to the maintenance of the global
climate equilibrium. The harsh conditions of this habitat are fundamental to selecting those …

The gut microbiota of mammals underpins the metabolic capacity and health of the host. Our
understanding of what influences the composition of this community has been limited …

Antarctica represents a unique environment, both due to the extreme meteorological and
geological conditions that govern it and the relative isolation from human influences that …