Salinity is a major factor controlling the distribution of biota in aquatic systems, and most
aquatic multicellular organisms are either adapted to life in saltwater or freshwater conditions. …

Humans host complex microbial communities believed to contribute to health maintenance
and, when in imbalance, to the development of diseases. Determining the microbial …

Shotgun sequencing enables the reconstruction of genomes from complex microbial
communities, but because assembly does not reconstruct entire genomes, it is necessary to bin …

Total homocysteine is defined as the sum of all homocysteine species in plasma/serum,
including free and protein-bound forms. In the present review, we compare and evaluate several …

Antibiotic administration is the standard treatment for the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the
main causative agent of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. However, the long-term …

Objective The early intestinal microbiota exerts important stimuli for immune development,
and a reduced microbial exposure as well as caesarean section (CS) has been associated …

BACKGROUND & AIMS:: The composition of the gastrointestinal microbiota is thought to
have an important role in the etiology of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) such as Crohn's …

BACKGROUND: It is debated whether a low total diversity of the gut microbiota in early
childhood is more important than an altered prevalence of particular bacterial species for the …

Background Low total diversity of the gut microbiota during the first year of life is associated
with allergic diseases in infancy, but little is known how early microbial diversity is related to …

Background Analyses of DNA sequences from cultivated microorganisms have revealed
genome-wide, taxa-specific nucleotide compositional characteristics, referred to as genome …