Microbial diversity refers to the variety of different microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists, that exist in a particular environment or ecosystem. It highlights the range of different species, their populations, and their genetic variations within a microbial community.
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This enabled the investigators to quantify the shifts in
microbial diversity in each part of the GI tract, following infection.
With my patients, I often discuss diet and food sensitivities, investigating
gut microbial diversity, evaluating adrenal function and stress response and testing for exposure to environmental toxins.
But for rats on a healthy diet, the probiotics had little impact
on microbial diversity and actually impaired recognition memory.
And if you're like most health - conscience consumers, you're probably using foods and supplements to support digestion and
promote microbial diversity.
So other researchers are developing perennial crops that produce year after year, and
cultivating microbial diversity in the soil to boost yield and nutrition.
The brain is assumed to be a sterile organ in the absence of disease although the impact of immune disruption is uncertain in terms of
brain microbial diversity or quantity.
Out - of - sync gut bacteria — meaning the wrong type
of microbial diversity and / or lack of diversity — can affect numerous things including weight loss.
The best bet is variety and whole food sources, as different types of resistant starch favor different types of gut bacteria, and we know that
microbial diversity in the gut is important.
Currently, researchers analyze
microbial diversity by taking a sample they hope includes the different kinds of bacteria in the gut.
They suspected that by
increasing microbial diversity in the gut, probiotics could combat behavioural changes and prevent memory impairment linked to poor diet.
«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre
for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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.
Decreased microbial diversity of other body sites has also been associated with a variety of clinical conditions such as obesity, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease.
«Princess Elisabeth Antarctica enabled us to sample a variety of rarely studied habitats, which are typically found in inland locations of the Antarctic continent», said Dr Elie Verleyen, a biologist at Ghent University, and principal investigator of the BELDIVA project, which studies
microbial diversity within a 200 km radius of the station.
Microbial diversity from chlorophyll maximum, oxygen minimum and bottom zones in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean — Renata Medina - Silva — Journal of Marine Systems
At the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where ice and life are her topics, Birgit Sattler's research looks
at microbial diversity in alpine, arctic, and antarctic environments.
Apart from assessing the
overall microbial diversity on our planet, we aim to gain insight in the evolutionary relations between between and within the Three Domains of Life.
Prebiotics, or foods that escape digestion and are instead selectively fermented by beneficial bacteria in the colon, are a viable strategy for
encouraging microbial diversity and in turn enhance the health of the host (45).
Multi-locus and long amplicon sequencing approach to
study microbial diversity at species level using the MinION ™ portable nanopore sequencer
Fiber helps to improve digestion by keeping you «regular», provides the body with steady energy, and
improves microbial diversity in the gut (think probiotics).
My lab is dedicated to explore the vast uncharacterized
microbial diversity using cutting - edge culture independent technologies, such as single cell genomics and metagenomics.
I am working on bacterial genomics and evolution with a focus on within - patient microbial diversity
Jackson's work on
microbial diversity caught the attention of Seed, who was already interested in the microbiome in the guts of preterm infants but who did not have a background in ecology.
Despite an
enormous microbial diversity, the bulk of microbial biochemical functions in the global ocean is driven by a small number of metabolic pathways that are encoded by just a few genes.
«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.
In his own lab, he is raising nematodes on soil enriched with different types of produce — sugary versus fibrous, for example — and finds that no matter what the food source and the resulting
environmental microbial diversity, worms have similar sets of bacteria in their guts.
Brugler added: «Studies to date that have used shotgun alone to
infer microbial diversity estimates should be viewed cautiously, as they are likely underestimating true diversity.»
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 study, «Antibiotic - induced perturbations in gut
microbial diversity influences neuro - inflammation and amyloidosis in a murine model of Alzheimer's disease,» was supported by the Cure Alzheimer's Fund and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
The composition of the microbiota,
including microbial diversity, density and the interaction between microbial components is likely to influence whether colonization proceeds to disease and the severity of such disease.
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