Our intestinal microbiota harbours a diverse bacterial community required for our health,
sustenance and wellbeing,. Intestinal colonization begins at birth and climaxes with the …

The composition of the human gut microbiota is linked to health and disease, but knowledge
of individual microbial species is needed to decipher their biological roles. Despite …

Although the composition and functional potential of the human gut microbiota evolve over
the lifespan, kinship has been identified as a key covariate of microbial community …

The human gut microbiota is linked to a variety of human health issues and implicated in
antibiotic resistance gene dissemination. Most of these associations rely on culture …

The gut microbiome is associated with diverse diseases,–, but a universal signature of a
healthy or unhealthy microbiome has not been identified, and there is a need to understand …

Our understanding of how the gut microbiome interacts with its human host has been
restrained by limited access to longitudinal datasets to examine stability and dynamics, and …

The genome sequences of many species of the human gut microbiome remain unknown,
largely owing to challenges in cultivating microorganisms under laboratory conditions. Here …

Metagenomics revolutionized the understanding of the relations among the human
microbiome, health and diseases, but generated a countless number of sequences that …

Current sequencing-based analyses of faecal microbiota quantify microbial taxa and
metabolic pathways as fractions of the sample sequence library generated by each …

Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ
remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of …