The volatile microbiome

TL;DR: The prokaryotic communities within oil sands tailings ponds consist of a few core taxa and numerous accessory members that likely afford resiliency and functional redundancy including roles in iron-, nitrogen- and sulfur-cycling, syntrophy, fermentation, and methanogenesis.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a perspective on the concepts and foundations of data analysis and interpretation of microbiome experiments with a focus on the microbiome-gut-brain axis domain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterized the composition of the gut microbiome in a Yucatan minipig SCI model and compared the relative abundance of the most dominant bacterial phyla in control samples to those collected from animals who underwent a contusion-compression SCI at the 2nd or 10th thoracic level.

TL;DR: This work states that systems/network-based approaches are not only enabling us to develop models of disease and wellness in a population but also contributing to the authors' efforts to reverse engineer the molecular networks corresponding to disease states by perturbing using drug cocktails.

TL;DR: A translational medicine pipeline is described where human gut microbial communities and diets are re-created in gnotobiotic mice and the impact on microbe and host is defined using metagenomics, creating a well-defined, representative animal model of the human gut ecosystem.

TL;DR: A microarray is designed to detect and quantitate the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene sequences of most currently recognized species and taxonomic groups of bacteria and suggested that incidental environmental exposures play a major role in determining the distinctive characteristics of the microbial community in each baby.

TL;DR: Ciprofloxacin treatment influenced the abundance of about a third of the bacterial taxa in the gut, decreasing the taxonomic richness, diversity, and evenness of the community, and support the hypothesis of functional redundancy in the human gut microbiota.

TL;DR: This study revealed that seemingly chaotic shifts in the microbiome are associated with life events; however, additional experiments ought to be conducted to assess how different infants respond to similar life events.