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Longitudinal study of the scalp microbiome suggests coconut oil to enrich healthy scalp commensals
Dandruff is a recurrent chronic scalp disorder, affecting majority of the population worldwide. Recently a metagenomic study of the Indian scalp microbiome described an imperative role of bacterial commensals in providing essential vitamins and amino ...
Rituja Saxena+7 more
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Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics
The number and diversity of viral sequences that are identified in metagenomic data far exceeds that of experimentally characterized virus isolates. In a recent workshop, a panel of experts discussed the proposal that, with appropriate quality control ...
P. Simmonds+25 more
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Pairwise and incremental multi-stage alignment of metagenomes: A new proposal [PDF]
Traditional comparisons between metagenomes are often performed using reference databases as intermediary templates from which to obtain distance metrics.
Pérez-Wohlfeil, Esteban+2 more
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Background The genus Planococcus is comprised of halophilic bacteria generally reported for the production of carotenoid pigments and biosurfactants. In previous work, we showed that the culturing of the orange-pigmented Planococcus sp.
Anesu Conrad Moyo+4 more
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Virome research is a rapidly growing area in the microbiome field that is increasingly associated with human diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Daan Jansen, Jelle Matthijnssens
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Seawater transfer alters the intestinal microbiota profiles of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) [PDF]
This study was funded by a BBSRC Eastbio PhD studentship to CED and BBSRC grant BB/M026604/1. The authors wish to thank Ana Rita Sancho Silva for facilitating the sampling for the experiment.
Dehler, Carola E+2 more
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Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy
The current view of virus diversity in terrestrial hot springs is limited to a few sampling sites. To expand our current understanding of hot spring viral community diversity, this study aimed to investigate the first African hot spring (Brandvlei hot ...
Olivier Zablocki+3 more
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Background An aberrant composition of the salivary microbiota has been found in individuals with type 2 diabetes, and in pregnant women salivary microbiota composition has been associated with preeclampsia and pre-term birth.
Mie K. W. Crusell+8 more
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Metagenomic screening of the sugarcane virome in Florida. [P.36] [PDF]
Viral metagenomics has revolutionized the way pathologists decipher viral diseases. While the impact of this new approach is still debatable in plant virus diagnostics, viral metagenomics has already produced key advances in viral ecology and has the ...
Comstock, Jack C.+5 more
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The Computational Diet: A Review of Computational Methods Across Diet, Microbiome, and Health. [PDF]
Food and human health are inextricably linked. As such, revolutionary impacts on health have been derived from advances in the production and distribution of food relating to food safety and fortification with micronutrients. During the past two decades,
Eetemadi, Ameen+5 more
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