Sentences with phrase «microbial communities»

Many animals rely on microbial communities in their guts to aid the process of digestion.

The goal of this project is to relate DNA based measurements of microbial communities from the human gut and other body sites to patient health status through niche modeling.

In this way, the scientists could separate out the effects of surgery itself on microbial communities from the effects of losing weight or consuming less food.

Long - term use of cover crops and no - till shift soil microbial community life strategies in agricultural soil.

Other topic areas include studying materials that form in temperatures above 2000 °C, using quantum physics to create better computers, and studying how microbial communities may help host organisms respond to stress.

They have discovered extremely diverse microbial communities on the surfaces of such lakes.

It's just as likely impossible to have healthy skin without a healthy microbial community as part of it.

The bottom line: studying such interactions can help scientists identify principles that can be used to design microbial communities for biomass conversion to biofuels and other processes.

For starters, no one knows the exact ingredients for a healthy microbial community, and the recipe probably differs from person to person.

Based on those changes, you will see drastically different microbial communities.

The researchers will also be able to study whether climate affects microbial communities.

I also collaborate with other researchers who want help to analyze microbial communities in other type of systems, such as the intestinal flora of various animals.

Specifically, the researchers found that deforestation dramatically alters microbial communities in sandy soils, but has minimal effects in muddy, clay - like soils, even after extensive tree removal.

«Today we're able to compile immense data about microbial communities very quickly, but it's very difficult to put the information together to create a coherent picture,» she added.

Leading microbiome researchers use the term «impoverished» to describe microbial communities that lack healthy numbers and diversity.

We use organic methods like cover crop and use compost teas to help microbial communities thrive.

«This root system allows this plant to convert sunlight and nutrients into plant sugars that it pumps below ground,» and to feed soil microbial communities much further below the land surface.

Scientists have discovered that deep - sea microbial communities, buried for 86 million years, are still consuming oxygen, albeit at extraordinarily low rates.

The team also shows how to identify bacteria most crucial for a healthy and stable microbial community, which could inform the development of probiotics and other therapies.

He wonders if there are buried microbial communities much older than 11 million years, and whether any of them hide other markers of complex ecology, such as viruses.

He has sought to understand how modern microbial communities become preserved as fossils.

We can apply those technologies to these incredibly complicated microbial communities.

And supplying young mice with certain sugars typically provided in breast milk helps to make sure the right microbial community gets established.

The mouse pups also had similar changes in their gut bacteria, with microbial communities matching their mothers at birth.

Although each team retained their microbial fingerprint, we found that team microbial communities became more similar to one another after players competed in a bout.

We have done that in some very simple artificial microbial communities we've grown in the lab.

What I think is really interesting is to examine what's happening in microbial communities starting from their smallest building blocks: the molecules.

Those whose microbial communities were too impoverished didn't — or couldn't — respond to the new diet.

Did you know that you are vastly occupied by invisible microbial community and that their cells are 10 times more than your human cells?

In contrast, previous research suggests that variations in the composition of microbial communities may contribute to chronic health conditions, including diabetes, asthma, obesity and digestive disorders.

It should include, as a matter of priority, endangered soil habitats and soil types, where the most diverse microbial communities are to be found.

In addition, the team also measured the amount of phosphorus that ended up in the soil microbial community.

«This research ties very well into looking at and understanding microbial communities as a whole,» he added.

I want to know how microbial communities form over time and how they adapt to their environments.

Our research advances our knowledge of the impact of management practices on microbial communities and adds to a growing understanding of their importance for animal and environmental health.

Scientists initially thought that traces of odd DNA found when analyzing microbial communities were simply artifacts of the DNA sequencing process.

These buried microbial communities have been thought to be simple and nearly dormant.

We don't have an analogous way of doing that in a complicated microbial community.

Comparison of Microbial Community Structure in Kiwifruit Pollens — Min - Jung Kim — The Plant Pathology Journal

Characterization of shifts of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) intestinal microbial communities associated with antibiotic treatment — Katherine E. Dahlhausen — PeerJ

Those inhabiting the human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012).

A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California, San Diego indicates unique and changing microbial communities present during the decomposition of human cadavers look to be a reliable «clock» for forensic scientists.

Principal Coordinate Plots Comparing Microbial Community Composition Between Delivery Mode and Feeding Method Groups

But these puddles of decay aren't static; the researchers documented two distinct shifts in the soil microbial community within them.