Specific substrate-driven changes in human faecal microbiota composition contrast with functional redundancy in short-chain fatty acid production

ISME Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 610-622

  Reichardt, Nicole ^a   Vollmer, Maren ^b   Holtrop, Grietje ^a,c   Farquharson, Freda M ^a   Wefers, Daniel ^d   Bunzel, Mirko ^d   Duncan, Sylvia H ^a   Drew, Janice E ^a   Williams, Lynda M ^a   Milligan, Graeme ^b   Preston, Thomas ^b   Morrison, Douglas ^b   Flint, Harry J ^a   Louis, Petra ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENT; FATTY ACID; FECES; FERMENTATION; HOST; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; ORGANIC ACID; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBSTRATE;

EUBACTERIUM HALLII;

BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GALACTOMANNAN; MANNAN; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RHAMNOSE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; EUBACTERIUM; FECES; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BACTERIA; BUTYRATES; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; EUBACTERIUM; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; FERMENTATION; HUMANS; MANNANS; MICROBIOTA; PROPIONATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHAMNOSE;

EID: 85040822592     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.196     Document Type: Article

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