Experimental approaches for defining functional roles of microbes in the human gut

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 459-475

  Dantas, Gautam ^a   Sommer, Morten O A ^b,c   Degnan, Patrick H ^d   Goodman, Andrew L ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flora; Gain of function; Loss of function; Metagenomics; Microbiome; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMENSALISM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ORTHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; ZEBRA FISH;

BACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84884503949     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-092412-155642     Document Type: Article

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