The firmicutes/bacteroidetes ratio: a relevant marker of gut dysbiosis in obese patients?

F Magne, M Gotteland, L Gauthier, A Zazueta, S Pesoa… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The gut microbiota is emerging as a promising target for the management or prevention of
inflammatory and metabolic disorders in humans. Many of the current research efforts are …

Disease suppressive soils: new insights from the soil microbiome

D Schlatter, L Kinkel, L Thomashow, D Weller… - …, 2017 - Am Phytopath Society
Soils suppressive to soilborne pathogens have been identified worldwide for almost 60
years and attributed mainly to suppressive or antagonistic microorganisms. Rather than …

Normalization and microbial differential abundance strategies depend upon data characteristics

S Weiss, ZZ Xu, S Peddada, A Amir, K Bittinger… - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background Data from 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) amplicon sequencing present
challenges to ecological and statistical interpretation. In particular, library sizes often vary …

[HTML][HTML] Metagenomic shotgun sequencing and unbiased metabolomic profiling identify specific human gut microbiota and metabolites associated with immune …

AE Frankel, LA Coughlin, J Kim, TW Froehlich, Y **e… - Neoplasia, 2017 - Elsevier
This is the first prospective study of the effects of human gut microbiota and metabolites on
immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICT) response in metastatic melanoma patients. Whereas …

Establishing causality: opportunities of synthetic communities for plant microbiome research

JA Vorholt, C Vogel, CI Carlström, DB Müller - Cell host & microbe, 2017 - cell.com
Plant microbiome research highlights the importance of indigenous microbial communities
for host phenotypes such as growth and health. It aims to discover the molecular basis by …

Systematic improvement of amplicon marker gene methods for increased accuracy in microbiome studies

DM Gohl, P Vangay, J Garbe, A MacLean… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Amplicon-based marker gene surveys form the basis of most microbiome and other
microbial community studies. Such PCR-based methods have multiple steps, each of which …

Assessment of variation in microbial community amplicon sequencing by the Microbiome Quality Control (MBQC) project consortium

R Sinha, G Abu-Ali, E Vogtmann, AA Fodor… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In order for human microbiome studies to translate into actionable outcomes for health, meta-
analysis of reproducible data from population-scale cohorts is needed. Achieving sufficient …

Transplantation of fecal microbiota from patients with irritable bowel syndrome alters gut function and behavior in recipient mice

G De Palma, MDJ Lynch, J Lu, VT Dang… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder characterized by altered gut function
and often is accompanied by comorbid anxiety. Although changes in the gut microbiota have …

Optimizing methods and dodging pitfalls in microbiome research

D Kim, CE Hofstaedter, C Zhao, L Mattei, C Tanes… - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
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 …

Fetal meconium does not have a detectable microbiota before birth

KM Kennedy, MJ Gerlach, T Adam, MM Heimesaat… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Microbial colonization of the human intestine impacts host metabolism and immunity;
however, exactly when colonization occurs is unclear. Although many studies have reported …