Sentences with phrase «lower microbial diversity»

Relative to samples associated with colonization, those from pneumonia had significantly lower microbial diversity, decreased levels of several bacterial genera and prominent multifunctional cytokine responses.

Of the three sites tested, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility had the lowest microbial diversity.

Low microbial diversity is more common than you might think — not only are prescription antibiotics on the rise, but we are more stressed, are using more antibacterial soaps, and eating more animal proteins that are treated with antibiotics and fed corn (which changes their microbiome).

Not exact matches

By the fourth generation, the mice bred on low - fiber diets had lost 72 percent of the microbial diversity.

But mice that had experienced the low - fiber lifestyle still had 33 percent less microbial diversity than before.

They found that pups of mice on the low - fiber diet showed less and less microbial diversity with each generation.

But the microbial diversity still remained 67 percent lower than that in mice that had always had a high - fiber life.

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.

Without a regular input of organic matter, soil microbial diversity decreases and the carbon concentration is lowered.

Interestingly, these semi-captive animals» microbiomes fell right in between those of the wild and captive doucs, further supporting they hypothesis that lower plant consumption causes loss of microbial diversity.

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.

Research has found that microbial diversity within the first year of life is also low in Cesarean born infants.

Elders also tend to have less microbial diversity, which may reflect lower metabolic flexibility.

Ernakovich JG, Wallenstein MD (2015) Permafrost microbial community traits and functional diversity indicate low activity at in situ thaw temperatures.