Quantifying the metabolic activities of human-associated microbial communities across multiple ecological scales

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 830-848

  Maurice, Corinne F ^a   Turnbaugh, Peter J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human microbiome; Metabolic activity; Metagenomics; Microbial ecology; Microbiota; Single cell analysis

Indexed keywords

STABLE ISOTOPE;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL DAMAGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE PROBE; HABITAT; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

HUMAN MICROBIOME; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIOTA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881248157     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12022     Document Type: Review

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