High microbial diversity is normally associated with systemic stability and health.
An increased diversity is often associated with unstable or with unusual bacterial networks; in children with coeliac disease or adults with colorectal cancer an abnormally
high microbial diversity is found.
Controls aged three years and older were characterised by a higher fraction of butyrate - producing species within Clostridium clusters IV and XIVa than was seen in the corresponding diabetic children or in children from the younger age groups, while the diabetic children older than three years could be differentiated by having an unusually
high microbial diversity.
Not exact matches
Under European conditions, organic agriculture performs better than conventional agriculture with regard to certain parameters: for example, 30 to 100 percent
higher microbial activity3 and a significantly
higher biomass (+30 to 40 percent), density (+ 50 to 80 percent) and species
diversity of earthworms, a key soil - macro faunal species4.
But the
microbial diversity still remained 67 percent lower than that in mice that had always had a
high - fiber life.
A
high diversity of
microbial communities in the water could also reduce the potential for infection, according to earlier investigations conducted by UFZ researchers and published in Current Biology.
High up a Chilean volcano, there's more
microbial diversity in bone - dry vents than icy patches - which could alter our search for life out in the solar system
Only bacteria in the Bacteroidaceae and Bifidobacteriaceae families showed cospeciation with their ape hosts, with gut
microbial diversity lowest in humans and
highest in gorillas.
This suggests that the existence of Treponema «is likely a good indicator of a general
high level of
microbial diversity in the human gut,» says evolutionary anthropologist Stephanie Schnorr of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Earlier this year, Stanford University's Justin Sonnenburg found that mice fed a typical Western diet (
high in fat and carbohydrates and low in fiber) transferred a lower
diversity of beneficial
microbial species to future generations.
Therefore, we propose to perform metagenomics and transcriptomics analysis on vaginal samples from patients with
high - and low - risk HPV phenotypes to investigate the
microbial population dynamics and genomic
diversity of the vagina during various stages of HPV infection compared to uninfected individuals.
The Cytosponge detected decreased
microbial diversity in patients with
high - grade dysplasia in comparison to control patients, as measured by the observed OTU richness (p = 0 · 0147), Chao estimated total richness (p = 0 · 023), and Shannon
diversity index (p = 0 · 0085).
Studies have shown that the
microbial diversity in the large intestine reduced when mice were exposed to
high levels of stress.
One study demonstrated that the skin of healthy dogs has a much
higher diversity and population of
microbial cultures than that of dogs with skin allergies.2