Metagenome

Framework for exploring the sensory repertoire of the human gut microbiota
Bacteria sense changes in their environment and transduce signals to adjust their cellular functions accordingly. For this purpose, …
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Phylogeny-corrected identification of microbial gene families relevant to human gut colonization
The mechanisms by which different microbes colonize the healthy human gut versus other body sites, the gut in disease states, or other …
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Proteobacteria explain significant functional variability in the human gut microbiome
BACKGROUND While human gut microbiomes vary significantly in taxonomic composition, biological pathway abundance is surprisingly …
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Automated and accurate estimation of gene family abundance from shotgun metagenomes
Shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing is a widely applicable tool for characterizing the functions that are encoded by microbial …
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