Using "omics" and integrated multi-omics approaches to guide probiotic selection to mitigate chytridiomycosis and other emerging infectious diseases

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Rebollar, Eria A ^a   Antwis, Rachael E ^b,c,d   Becker, Matthew H ^e   Belden, Lisa K ^f   Bletz, Molly C ^g   Brucker, Robert M ^h   Harrison, Xavier A ^c   Hughey, Myra C ^f   Kueneman, Jordan G ⁱ   Loudon, Andrew H ^j   McKenzie, Valerie ⁱ   Medina, Daniel ^f   Minbiole, Kevin P C ^k   Rollins Smith, Louise A ^l   Walke, Jenifer B ^f   Weiss, Sophie ^m   Woodhams, Douglas C ⁿ   Harris, Reid N ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^k VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

Amphibians; Emerging diseases; Metabolomics; Metagenomics; Probiotics; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BIOINFORMATICS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN FLORA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84962077744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00068     Document Type: Review

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