Asymptomatic Intestinal Colonization with Protist Blastocystis Is Strongly Associated with Distinct Microbiome Ecological Patterns

Asymptomatic Intestinal Colonization with Protist Blastocystis Is Strongly Associated with Distinct Microbiome Ecological Patterns

Given the results of our study and other reports of the effects of the most common human gut protist on the diversity and composition of the bacterial microbiome, Blastocystis and, possibly, other gut protists should be studied as ecosystem engineers that drive community diversity and composition.Bl...

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Main Authors: M. E. Nieves-Ramírez, O. Partida-Rodríguez, I. Laforest-Lapointe, L. A. Reynolds, E. M. Brown, A. Valdez-Salazar, P. Morán-Silva, L. Rojas-Velázquez, E. Morien, L. W. Parfrey, M. Jin, J. Walter, J. Torres, M. C. Arrieta, C. Ximénez-García, B. B. Finlay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-06-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
Blastocystis
gut microbiome
eukaryome
host-microbe interactions
microbial ecology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00007-18

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https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00007-18

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