BACKGROUND Microbial communities are ubiquitous on Earth. The microbiota of different
habitats are diverse and have distinct functional traits, but there are common ecological …

Longitudinal human gut microbiome datasets generated using community-level, sequence-
based approaches often report a sub-set of long-lived “resident” taxa that rarely, if ever, are …

During the last decade, metaproteomics has provided a better understanding and functional
characterization of the microbiome. A large body of evidence now reveals interspecies …

Predicting how populations and communities of organisms will respond to anthropogenic
change is of paramount concern in ecology today. For communities of microorganisms …

Environmental factors can influence the composition of gut microbiota, but understanding
the combined effect of lifestyle factors on adult gut microbiota is limited. Here, we …

Preterm infants are exposed to major perinatal, post-natal, and early infancy events that
could impact on the gut microbiome. These events include infection, steroid and antibiotic …

While much attention has gone towards ethical, legal, and social implications of direct-to-
consumer genetic testing over the past decades, the rise of new forms of consumer omics …

Over the past two decades, our understanding of the gut microbiome has increased
dramatically. However, most studies involving healthy adults have relied almost exclusively …