Are Human Intestinal Eukaryotes Beneficial or Commensals?

Julius Lukeš; Christen Rune Stensvold; Kateřina Jirků-Pomajbíková; Laura Wegener Parfrey

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005039

Are Human Intestinal Eukaryotes Beneficial or Commensals?

PLoS Pathog. 2015 Aug 13;11(8):e1005039. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005039. eCollection 2015 Aug.

Authors

Julius Lukeš¹, Christen Rune Stensvold², Kateřina Jirků-Pomajbíková³, Laura Wegener Parfrey⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada.
² Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
⁴ Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada; Departments of Botany and Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Eukaryota
Gastrointestinal Microbiome / physiology*
Humans
Symbiosis*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Czech Grant Agency P305/12/2261, the Modbiolin FP7 agreement 316304, the Praemium Academiae award to JL, and the HFSP Research Grant RGY0078/2015 to KJP and LWP. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.