Disentangling host–microbiota complexity through hologenomics

A Alberdi, SB Andersen, MT Limborg, RR Dunn… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Research on animal–microbiota interactions has become a central topic in biological
sciences because of its relevance to basic eco-evolutionary processes and applied …

Structure and function of the human skin microbiome

NN Schommer, RL Gallo - Trends in microbiology, 2013 - cell.com
An abundant and diverse collection of bacteria, fungi, and viruses inhabits the human skin.
These microorganisms vary between individuals and between different sites on the skin. The …

The effect of host genetics on the gut microbiome

MJ Bonder, A Kurilshikov, EF Tigchelaar, Z Mujagic… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The gut microbiome is affected by multiple factors, including genetics. In this study, we
assessed the influence of host genetics on microbial species, pathways and gene ontology …

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

SJ Salter, MJ Cox, EM Turek, ST Calus, WO Cookson… - BMC biology, 2014 - Springer
Background The study of microbial communities has been revolutionised in recent years by
the widespread adoption of culture independent analytical techniques such as 16S rRNA …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies variation in vitamin D receptor and other host factors influencing the gut microbiota

J Wang, LB Thingholm, J Skiecevičienė, P Rausch… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Human gut microbiota is an important determinant for health and disease, and recent
studies emphasize the numerous factors shaping its diversity. Here we performed a genome …

Genetic and environmental control of host-gut microbiota interactions

E Org, BW Parks, JWJ Joo, B Emert… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Genetics provides a potentially powerful approach to dissect host-gut microbiota
interactions. Toward this end, we profiled gut microbiota using 16s rRNA gene sequencing …

Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita: the 2019 update

H Koga, C Prost-Squarcioni, H Iwata… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is an orphan autoimmune disease. Patients with EBA
suffer from chronic inflammation as well as blistering and scarring of the skin and mucous …

Negative binomial mixed models for analyzing microbiome count data

X Zhang, H Mallick, Z Tang, L Zhang, X Cui… - BMC …, 2017 - Springer
Background Recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology enable
researchers to collect a large volume of metagenomic sequencing data. These data provide …

Links between natural variation in the microbiome and host fitness in wild mammals

TA Suzuki - Integrative and comparative biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies in model organisms have shown that compositional variation in the
microbiome can affect a variety of host phenotypes including those related to digestion …

[PDF][PDF] Biology of soft tissue repair: Gingival epithelium in wound healing and attachment to the tooth and abutment surface

S Gibbs, S Roffel, M Meyer, A Gasser - Eur Cell Mater, 2019 - ecmjournal.org
Epithelium attachment to the tooth or abutment surface is necessary to form a biological seal
preventing pathogens and irritants from penetrating the body and reaching the underlying …