Metagenomics: Key to human gut microbiota

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 525-530

  MacCaferri, Simone ^a   Biagi, Elena ^a   Brigidi, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gut microbiota; Metagenomics; Microbiome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ASCOMYCETES; ATOPY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; BLASTOCYSTIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON CROHN DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FIRMICUTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; METHANOBREVIBACTER SMITHII; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOME; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW;

GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84055190994     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: 14219875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332966     Document Type: Review

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