From Animalcules to an Ecosystem: Application of Ecological Concepts to the Human Microbiome

By Noah Fierer, Scott Ferrenberg, G. Flores, Antonio Gonzalez, Jordan G. Kueneman, T. Legg, R. Lynch, Daniel McDonald, J. Mihaljevic, S. O’Neill and 3 more. 2012

97 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Genetics

1. A. E. Douglas
2. Diethard Tautz
3. Andrew H. Knoll
4. T. Fukami
5. N. Pierce
6. M. Hadfield
7. S. Mazmanian
8. H. Feldhaar

In Molecular Biology

1. Scott F. Gilbert
2. M. McFall-Ngai
3. Tomislav Domazet-Lošo
4. U. Hentschel
5. A. E. Douglas
6. Diethard Tautz
7. Andrew H. Knoll
8. T. Fukami

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Scott F. Gilbert
2. T. Fukami

Citations in the corpus

• Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences (2013, background): “The application of ecological approaches, including successional assembly and diversity analysis, has proven valuable in understanding how animalmicrobial alliances function (99-101).”
• Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects (2015, background): “For example, the gut microbial communities of obese, undernourished, and healthy people have been hypothesized to represent alternative stable states (Fierer et al. 2012).”