Luis David Alcaraz

TL;DR: The metagenome of the human oral cavity under health and diseased conditions is described for the first time, with a focus on supragingival dental plaque and cavities, indicating that the oral cavity is functionally a different environment from the gut, with many functional categories enriched in one of the two environments and depleted in the other.

TL;DR: The aquatic Bacilli are defined here for the first time as a group through the phylogenetic analysis of 814 genes that comprise the core genome, using a core genome and pan-genome to provide insight into phylogeny and function that would otherwise be difficult to achieve.

TL;DR: The results support a scenario in which pH and diet are determinants of the disease during the degradation of enamel, but in dentin caries lesions not only acidogenic but also proteolytic bacteria are involved.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the size and complexity of the B. coahuilensis genome reflects the adaptation of an ancient marine bacterium to a novel environment, providing support to a “marine isolation origin hypothesis” that is consistent with the geology of CCB.