Intestinal microbiome landscaping: Insight in community assemblage and implications for microbial modulation strategies

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 182-199

  Shetty, Sudarshan A ^a   Hugenholtz, Floor ^a   Lahti, Leo ^a,b,c   Smidt, Hauke ^a   de Vos, Willem M ^a,d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Bistability; Core microbiota; Early warning signals; Landscape model; Tipping elements

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MICROBIOME; BACTEROIDES; DRUG USE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LARGE INTESTINE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREVOTELLA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INTESTINE; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENOME, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES;

EID: 85016188292     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuw045     Document Type: Article

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