Hormones and the Microbiome Turns out a certain set of gut bacteria and more specifically
certain bacterial genes, called the estrobolome, produce an essential enzyme...
«There are
certain bacterial genes that are more worrisome than others, that are much harder to treat,» Adalja said.
Not exact matches
According to this view, our
genes determine the environment our microbiome occupies, and each particular environment allows
certain bacterial strains to thrive.
When scientists at the University of Delhi in India took soil samples from a pesticide dump and compared them with samples from a cleaner control site, they reported that the soil from the waste site contained a higher concentration of
gene sequences from
certain bacterial groups, such as Pseudomonas, Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas, that are known to degrade common pesticides like hexachlorocyclohexane.