The microbiome presents great opportunities for understanding and improving the world
around us and elucidating the interactions that compose it. The microbiome also poses …

Host-microbe interactions are influenced by complex host genetics and environment.
Studies across animal taxa have aided our understanding of how intestinal microbiota …

Resident microbes play important roles in the development of the gastrointestinal tract, but
their influence on other digestive organs is less well explored. Using the gnotobiotic …

In a healthy gut, microbes are often aggregated with host mucus, yet the molecular basis for
this organization and its impact on intestinal health are unclear. Mucus is a viscous physical …

Correlating the presence of bacteria and the genes they carry with aspects of plant and
animal biology is rapidly outpacing the functional characterization of naturally occurring …

Stable mutualism between a host and its resident bacteria requires a moderated immune
response to control bacterial population size without eliciting excessive inflammation that …

ABSTRACT A priority in gut microbiome research is to develop methods to investigate
ecological processes shaping microbial populations in the host from readily accessible data …

Organisms and their resident microbial communities form a complex and mostly stable
ecosystem. It is known that the specific composition and abundance of certain bacterial …

Intestinal microbes, whether resident or transient, influence the physiology of their hosts,
altering both the chemical and the physical characteristics of the gut. An example of the latter …

The spatial organization of gut microbiota influences both microbial abundances and host-
microbe interactions, but the underlying rules relating bacterial dynamics to large-scale …