Because the pool of
microbial taxa found in the soil is so large and diverse, it is hard to isolate the most beneficial ones for study.
Researchers analyzing
microbial taxa in ICU patients» guts, mouth and skin reported finding dysbiosis, or a bacterial imbalance, that worsened during a patient's stay in the hospital.
In grad school, I collected poop from 142 animals belonging to 12 species housed at 4 different zoos to investigate how host diet and genetic background select for specific
microbial taxa and functions.
The results suggest that the sequenced genomes define two microbial groups: one composed of only a few taxa that are nearly always abundant in picoplanktonic communities, and the other consisting of many
microbial taxa that are rarely abundant.
Many of
the microbial taxa living in the subsurface are under - represented in culture - dependent investigations.
Several
microbial taxa have been closely associated with lipid profiles, including Eggerthella, Pasteurellaceae, and Butyricimonas (5).
Not exact matches
In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which bacterial
taxa invade the gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and
microbial niche are affected by human diets.
In the future, winemakers might use
microbial analyses to improve their products by identifying bacteria and fungi associated with desirable metabolites, or by finding troublesome
taxa before they cause spoilage or other problems during fermentation
And the numbers of several
microbial types (
taxa) were also higher.