Microbiota succession throughout life from the cradle to the grave

C Martino, AH Dilmore, ZM Burcham… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Associations between age and the human microbiota are robust and reproducible. The
microbial composition at several body sites can predict human chronological age relatively …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging priorities for microbiome research

CM Cullen, KK Aneja, S Beyhan, CE Cho… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Microbiome research has increased dramatically in recent years, driven by advances in
technology and significant reductions in the cost of analysis. Such research has unlocked a …

Comparative gut microbiota of 59 neotropical bird species

SM Hird, C Sánchez, BC Carstens… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Postmortem changes in animal carcasses and estimation of the postmortem interval

JW Brooks - Veterinary pathology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
A thorough understanding of the physical and chemical changes that occur in the body after
death is critical for accurate interpretation of gross and microscopic pathology at autopsy …

Microbial forensics: new breakthroughs and future prospects

M Oliveira, A Amorim - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Recent advances in genetic data generation, through massive parallel sequencing (MPS),
storage and analysis have fostered significant progresses in microbial forensics (or forensic …

A large-scale survey of the postmortem human microbiome, and its potential to provide insight into the living health condition

JL Pechal, CJ Schmidt, HR Jordan, ME Benbow - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The microbiome plays many roles in human health, often through the exclusive lens of
clinical interest. The inevitable end point for all living hosts, death, has its own altered …

Isolation and quantification of uremic toxin precursor-generating gut bacteria in chronic kidney disease patients

T Gryp, GRB Huys, M Joossens, W Van Biesen… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In chronic kidney disease (CKD), impaired kidney function results in accumulation of uremic
toxins, which exert deleterious biological effects and contribute to inflammation and …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the postmortem interval using microbes: Knowledge gaps and a path to technology adoption

JL Metcalf - Forensic Science International: Genetics, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbes have potential to be used as physical evidence for forensic science because they
are ubiquitous and have predictable ecologies. With the advent of next generation …

A machine learning approach for using the postmortem skin microbiome to estimate the postmortem interval

HR Johnson, DD Trinidad, S Guzman, Z Khan… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Research on the human microbiome, the microbiota that live in, on, and around the human
person, has revolutionized our understanding of the complex interactions between microbial …

Functional and structural succession of soil microbial communities below decomposing human cadavers

KL Cobaugh, SM Schaeffer, JM DeBruyn - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The ecological succession of microbes during cadaver decomposition has garnered interest
in both basic and applied research contexts (eg community assembly and dynamics; …