Association of fecal microbial diversity and taxonomy with selected enzymatic functions.

Few microbial functions have been compared to a comprehensive survey of the human fecal microbiome. We evaluated determinants of fecal microbial β-glucuronidase and β-glucosidase activities, focusing especially on associations with microbial alpha and beta diversity and taxonomy. We enrolled 51 heal...

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Main Authors: Roberto Flores, Jianxin Shi, Mitchell H Gail, Pawel Gajer, Jacques Ravel, James J Goedert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3386201?pdf=render