The fungal frontier: A comparative analysis of methods used in the study of the human gut mycobiome

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue JUL, 2017, Pages

  Huseyin, Chloe E ^a,b,c   Rubio, Raul Cabrera ^a,b   O'Sullivan, Orla ^a,b   Cotter, Paul D ^a,b   Scanlan, Pauline D ^b  

^a Teagasc Food Research Centre   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fungi; Gut microbiota; Healthy; Human; Methodology; Mycobiome; Mycobiota

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CLAVISPORA LUSITANIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYBERLINDNERA; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREEZING; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE LIBRARY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; KAZACHSTANIA; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYCOBIOME; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PICHIA KUDRIAVZEVII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES; SANGER SEQUENCING; TALAROMYCES;

EID: 85026625970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01432     Document Type: Article

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