Characterization of the fungal microbiota (mycobiome) in healthy and dandruff-afflicted human scalps

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Park, Hee Kuk ^a   Ha, Myung Ho ^a   Park, Sang Gue ^a   Kim, Myeung Nam ^a   Kim, Beom Joon ^a   Kim, Wonyong ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACREMONIUM; ARTICLE; CONIOCHAETA VELUTINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DANDRUFF; DIDYMELLA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUPENICILLIUM; FILOBASIDIUM FLORIFORME; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RESOURCE; MALASSEZIA; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PHYLUM; PYROSEQUENCING; RHODOTORULA; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SCALP; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; KOREA; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FILOBASIDIUM; MALASSEZIA;

RIBOSOME RNA;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATITIS, SEBORRHEIC; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; KOREA; LINEAR MODELS; METAGENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SCALP; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863288251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032847     Document Type: Article

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