Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

By Ruth E. Ley, Micah Hamady, Catherine A. Lozupone, Peter J. Turnbaugh, R. R. Ramey, J. Bircher, M. Schlegel, Tammy A. Tucker, M. Schrenzel, Rob Knight and 1 more. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Physiology

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Probiotics and prebiotics in animal feeding for safe food production. (2010, background): “Diet is an additional factor influencing the gut microbiota; herbivores contain a higher number of bacterial phyla, while carnivores the fewest number, and omnivores are at an intermediate level (Ley et al., 2008).”
Gut-residing segmented filamentous bacteria drive autoimmune arthritis via T helper 17 cells (2010, background): “Mammals host trillions of microbes at diverse locations throughout the body, in particular in the gut (Bä ckhed et al., 2005; Ley et al., 2006, 2008b).”
Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System (2011, methodology): “To compare our results to mammalian studies, the 17,504 ultraclean sequences from [12] were analyzed.”
Conducting a Microbiome Study (2014, background): “Noise introduced by PCR and sequencing errors has the greatest impact on alpha diversity but generally has very little effect on beta diversity (Ley et al., 2008).”
Comparative Analysis of Pyrosequencing and a Phylogenetic Microarray for Exploring Microbial Community Structures in the Human Distal Intestine (2009, positive): “Moreover, Ley and colleagues identified close to 4,700 unique phylotypes (at$96% similarity) from over 20,000 full-length 16S rRNA genes sequenced from 60 mammalian species [44].”
The human gut microbiome: ecology and recent evolutionary changes. (2011, background): “Host-microbe symbiosis in humans and other mammals differs from that in invertebrates because vertebrate hosts generally harbor more diverse and dense microbial communities in their intestines (45, 58).”
Gut Immune Maturation Depends on Colonization with a Host-Specific Microbiota (2012, background): “Diet and host phylogeny are both critical determinants of gut bacterial diversity (Ley et al., 2008b; Ochman et al., 2010).”
Environmental and ecological factors that shape the gut bacterial communities of fish: a meta‐analysis (2012, methodology): “Proteobacterial species comprised <30% of the OTUs from their gut communities, which were instead unique in their combined enrichment of species from the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes (>50% of the OTUs in each; Fig.”