A 2013 study found
greater microbial diversity in the gut flora of people who are lean.
His team hypothesized that they'd find
greater microbial diversity in the Inuit study population.
Not exact matches
«Our study suggests that the disease process and antibiotic treatment could have a far
greater impact on intestinal
microbial diversity than surgical intervention,» said Minna Wieck, MD, an investigator and surgical resident at CHLA and first author on the study.
One explanation for this could be that the
greater variations in environmental conditions, particularly the fluctuating substrate concentration, increased the
diversity of the
microbial community, leading to more functional groups of bacteria.
In cultivated areas of the
Great Prairie, farmers might choose fertilizers that preserve natural
microbial diversity, yielding plentiful food crops and maximizing carbon capture from the atmosphere.
The Blumberg Institute is home to one of the world's
greatest natural products collection of
microbial and botanical extracts that provide broad chemical
diversity for research and scholarship.