The particularly interdisciplinary nature of human microbiome research makes the organization
and reporting of results spanning epidemiology, biology, bioinformatics, translational …

The genus Prevotella includes more than 50 characterized species that occur in varied
natural habitats, although most Prevotella spp. are associated with humans. In the human …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are present in foods, the environment and the animal gut, although
fermented foods (FFs) are recognized as the primary niche of LAB activity. Several LAB …

MetaPhlAn (metagenomic phylogenetic analysis) 1 is a method for characterizing the
taxonomic profiles of whole-metagenome shotgun (WMS) samples that has been used …

Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

… , oral cavity or non-Westernized samples, Figure 1E), the actual number of possibly redundant
ge… (E) Distribution of the fraction of uSGBs in each sample by age category, body site, and …

The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant of
several health conditions 1 , 2 . However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape …

… Transmission and persistent colonization by E. coli strains were evident in three cases (Figure
3C) all belonging to the E. coli B2 phylotype, known for enhanced persistence in the infant …

… from PhyloPhlAn 3.0's tree of eight Ethiopian E. coli MAGs (kSGB 10068) integrated with
200 automatically selected E. coli reference genomes using 3246 UniRef90 gene families for …

… d,e, qPCR validation of cutC gene abundance (d) and cutC transcript abundance (normalized
by total 16S rRNA gene/transcript abundance) (e) on a subset of DNA samples from …