Gut microbiota associations through habitat transitions are fundamentally important yet poorly
understood. One such habitat transition is the migration from freshwater to saltwater for …

Background The “sterile womb” paradigm is debated. Recent evidence suggests that the
offspring’s first microbial encounter is before birth in term uncomplicated pregnancies. The …

The gut microbiome plays a key role in animal health and metabolism through the intricate
functional interconnection between the feed, gut microbes, and the host. Unfortunately, in …

Factors affecting the establishment of the gut microbiota in animals living in marine environments
remain largely unknown. In terrestrial animals, however, it is well established that the …

The maternal microbiota plays an important role in infant gut colonization. In this work we
have investigated which bacterial species are shared across the breast milk, vaginal and stool …

… T H 17 cell differentiation and essential for their IL-17 production, we next assessed if … IL-17.
Indeed, ex vivo stimulated p T regs produced substantial and diet-dependent amounts of IL-…

Background There is currently a lack of experimental evidence for horizontal gene transfer (HGT)
mechanisms in the human gut microbiota. The aim of this study was therefore to …

The aim of the current work was to investigate the impact of marine aquaculture on seafloor
biogeochemistry and diversity from pristine environments in the northern part of Norway. Our …

Background Studies of shifts in microbial community composition has many applications. For
studies at species or subspecies levels, the 16S amplicon sequencing lacks resolution and …

… Cells isolated from mLNs and incubated with PMA and Ionomycin, or IL-2 and IL-12, followed
by flow cytometric evaluation of T- and NK cells with respect to IFNγ expression. We found …