Molecular ecological tools to decipher the role of our microbial mass in obesity

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-81

  Hermes, G D A ^a   Zoetendal, E G ^a   Smidt, H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetics; Metabolism; Metagenomics; Microbiome; Proteome

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; FATTY ACID;

ARCHAEON; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA ISOLATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFESTYLE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOMICS; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; VERRUCOMICROBIA; BIOTA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PROCEDURES;

BIOTA; FATTY ACIDS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; OBESITY; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84920971125     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2014.0016     Document Type: Review

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