Over the past two decades, whole food supplementation strategies have been leveraged to
target mental health. In addition, there has been increasing attention on the ability of gut …

Over the last century, nutritional science uncovered that proper nutrition is a lot more
nuanced than the total amount of calories a person consumes per day. This understanding …

Physical particles can serve as critical abiotic factors that structure the ecology of microbial
communities. For non-human vertebrate gut microbiomes, fecal particle size (FPS) has been …

Dietary intake is tightly coupled to gut microbiota composition, human metabolism, and to
the incidence of virtually all major chronic diseases. Dietary and nutrient intake are usually …

Analyzing taxonomic diversity and identification in diverse ecological samples has become
a crucial routine in various research and industrial fields. While DNA barcoding marker-gene …

Objective biomarkers of food intake are a sought-after goal in nutrition research. The
majority of biomarker development to date has focused on metabolites detected in blood …

The eastern redbud, Cercis canadensis, is a small tree native to eastern North America that
has become a commonly used ornamental in the United States and worldwide. We used …