Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host

A Tett, E Pasolli, G Masetti, D Ercolini… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Ancient DNA analysis

L Orlando, R Allaby, P Skoglund… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4

A Blanco-Míguez, F Beghini, F Cumbo, LJ McIver… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

[HTML][HTML] The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-level analysis of the gut–brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles

JT Morton, DM Jin, RH Mills, Y Shao, G Rahman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by
heterogeneous cognitive, behavioral and communication impairments. Disruption of the gut …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

MC Wibowo, Z Yang, M Borry, A Hübner, KD Huang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Loss of gut microbial diversity,,,,–in industrial populations is associated with chronic
diseases, underscoring the importance of studying our ancestral gut microbiome. However …

[HTML][HTML] Precise phylogenetic analysis of microbial isolates and genomes from metagenomes using PhyloPhlAn 3.0

F Asnicar, AM Thomas, F Beghini, C Mengoni… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Microbial genomes are available at an ever-increasing pace, as cultivation and sequencing
become cheaper and obtaining metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) becomes more …

[HTML][HTML] Gut bacteria and neurotransmitters

LMT Dicks - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gut bacteria play an important role in the digestion of food, immune activation, and
regulation of entero-endocrine signaling pathways, but also communicate with the central …

The gut microbiome modulates the protective association between a Mediterranean diet and cardiometabolic disease risk

DD Wang, LH Nguyen, Y Li, Y Yan, W Ma, E Rinott… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
To address how the microbiome might modify the interaction between diet and
cardiometabolic health, we analyzed longitudinal microbiome data from 307 male …

Cardiometabolic health, diet and the gut microbiome: A meta-omics perspective

M Valles-Colomer, C Menni, SE Berry, AM Valdes… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Cardiometabolic diseases have become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally.
They have been tightly linked to microbiome taxonomic and functional composition, with diet …