Out - of - sync gut bacteria — meaning the wrong
type of microbial diversity and / or lack of diversity — can affect numerous things including weight loss.
We also aimed to enrich our understanding
of the microbial diversity of extreme environments, knowing that the vast majority of these microbes and their potential uses and benefits, remain undiscovered,» continued Dr. Yurkov.
Their findings, published in The American Society of Microbiology's mSystems journal, say that the pattern of microbial exchange is «likely circular in nature,» meaning that captive dragons contribute microbes to their environment, and reacquire these same microbes from their environment, repeating this exchange in an ongoing cycle without other external
sources of microbial diversity.
By using a sampling kit and answering a few questions, volunteers help researchers create an
atlas of microbial diversity in homes across the country.
In their study, the team collated data from numerous studies and locations in order to make a direct
comparison of the microbial diversity in these two distant regions for the first time.
This suggests that the existence of Treponema «is likely a good indicator of a general high
level of microbial diversity in the human gut,» says evolutionary anthropologist Stephanie Schnorr of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Diet clearly plays an important role in the establishment, growth and
maintenance of microbial diversity in the gut ecosystem, and feeding practices from birth help to modulate this.
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.
His main research interests is the
study of microbial diversity, specifically of protists, in the marine environment, both in terms of a description of the taxonomic composition of these assemblages as well as understanding their patterns of temporal and spatial variation in the environment.
To ensure the systems» stability, countermeasures may be required to avoid development of highly resistant, adapted microorganisms, and a complete loss
of microbial diversity.
The new study «counters the notion that soil bacteria are an exhausted source of natural products, and it opens the door to begin to explore the remaining 99 %
of microbial diversity that traditional culture - dependent approaches have missed,» says Steven G. Van Lanen of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.
Recent data indicate that pneumonia is characterized by loss
of microbial diversity and emergence of a dominant pathogen.