Trillions of microbes inhabit the human intestine, forming a complex ecological community
that influences normal physiology and susceptibility to disease through its collective metabolic …

The distal human intestine represents an anaerobic bioreactor programmed with an enormous
population of bacteria, dominated by relatively few divisions that are highly diverse at the …

One potential outcome of the adaptive coevolution of humans and bacteria is the development
of commensal relationships, where neither partner is harmed, or symbiotic relationships, …

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innovations in materials research, while also discussing how the field has evolved since Gordon …

To the Editor: High-throughput sequencing is revolutionizing microbial ecology studies.
Efforts like the Human Microbiome Projects 1 and the US National Ecological Observatory …

Gut microbial communities represent one source of human genetic and metabolic diversity.
To examine how gut microbiomes differ among human populations, here we characterize …

The human distal gut harbours a vast ensemble of microbes (the microbiota) that provide
important metabolic capabilities, including the ability to extract energy from otherwise …

The worldwide obesity epidemic is stimulating efforts to identify host and environmental factors
that affect energy balance. Comparisons of the distal gut microbiota of genetically obese …

Introduction Establishing whether specific structural and functional configurations of a
human gut microbiota are causally related to a given physiologic or disease phenotype is …

Mammals are metagenomic in that they are composed of not only their own gene complements
but also those of all of their associated microbes. To understand the coevolution of the …