Stress, a ubiquitous part of daily human life, has varied biological effects which are
increasingly recognized as including modulation of commensal microorganisms residing in …

Highlights•Drivers of low-diversity dysbiosis include antibiotics, host genetics,
physiology.•Dysbiosis results in shifts in microbial composition and function.•Dysbiosis …

Microbial genomes are available at an ever-increasing pace, as cultivation and sequencing
become cheaper and obtaining metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) becomes more …

The gut microbiomes of human populations worldwide have many core microbial species in
common. However, within a species, some strains can show remarkable population …

Prevotella copri is a common human gut microbe that has been both positively and
negatively associated with host health. In a cross-continent meta-analysis exploiting> 6,500 …

Background Antibiotic resistance is rising in important bacterial pathogens. Phage therapy
(PT), the use of bacterial viruses infecting the pathogen in a species-specific way, is a …

In the ocean, organic particles harbour diverse bacterial communities, which collectively
digest and recycle essential nutrients. Traits like motility and exo-enzyme production allow …

Ingestion of innocuous antigens, including food proteins, normally results in local and
systemic immune nonresponsiveness in a process termed oral tolerance. Oral tolerance to …

Background The resistome, the collection of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in a
microbiome, is increasingly recognised as relevant to the development of clinically relevant …

The ecological and evolutionary study of community formation, diversity, and stability is
rooted in general theory and reinforced by decades of system-specific empirical work …