The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome

An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

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Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems

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Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

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Linking long-term dietary patterns with gut microbial enterotypes

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The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography

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The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology

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Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns

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<i>Faecalibacterium prausnitzii</i> is an anti-inflammatory commensal bacterium identified by gut microbiota analysis of Crohn disease patients

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Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women

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Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune System

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Outpatient antibiotic use in Europe and association with resistance: a cross-national database study

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Development of the Human Infant Intestinal Microbiota

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Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

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Succession of microbial consortia in the developing infant gut microbiome

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MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

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Incomplete recovery and individualized responses of the human distal gut microbiota to repeated antibiotic perturbation

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Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

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The pervasive effects of an antibiotic on the human gut microbiota, as revealed by deep 16S rRNA sequencing

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Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions

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Factors influencing the composition of the intestinal microbiota in early infancy

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The inner of the two Muc2 mucin-dependent mucus layers in colon is devoid of bacteria

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NLRP6 Inflammasome Regulates Colonic Microbial Ecology and Risk for Colitis

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Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure

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Microbial Exposure During Early Life Has Persistent Effects on Natural Killer T Cell Function

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An ecological and evolutionary perspective on human–microbe mutualism and disease

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Interactions between commensal intestinal bacteria and the immune system

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Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors

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Temporal Dynamics of the Human Vaginal Microbiota

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Clostridium difficile--more difficult than ever.

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Developmental microbial ecology of the neonatal gastrointestinal tract

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Short-term antibiotic treatment has differing long-term impacts on the human throat and gut microbiome

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Moving pictures of the human microbiome

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Long-term ecological impacts of antibiotic administration on the human intestinal microbiota

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Community assembly: when should history matter?

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The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology

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Compounded Perturbations Yield Ecological Surprises

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Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium exploits inflammation to compete with the intestinal microbiota

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Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome

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The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals adaptations for milk utilization within the infant microbiome

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Molecular Monitoring of Succession of Bacterial Communities in Human Neonates

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Human intestinal bacteria as reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes

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ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems

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Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory

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Bacterial charity work leads to population-wide resistance

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Intestinal inflammation allows Salmonella to use ethanolamine to compete with the microbiota

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Antimicrobial‐Associated Risk Factors for<i>Clostridium difficile</i>Infection

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Combined niche and neutral effects in a microbial wastewater treatment community

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Consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by gut-related microbes

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Bifidobacterial surface-exopolysaccharide facilitates commensal-host interaction through immune modulation and pathogen protection

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Infectious History

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Mode and place of delivery, gastrointestinal microbiota, and their influence on asthma and atopy

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The power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales

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Immune Responses to the Microbiota at the Intestinal Mucosal Surface

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Signaling-mediated bacterial persister formation

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Probiotics prevent IgE-associated allergy until age 5 years in cesarean-delivered children but not in the total cohort

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Getting a grip on things: how do communities of bacterial symbionts become established in our intestine?

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The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation

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Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states?

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Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea Accompanied by Large-Scale Alterations in the Composition of the Fecal Microbiota

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The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities

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Microbiota-Targeted Therapies: An Ecological Perspective

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Immigration history controls diversification in experimental adaptive radiation

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Host–microbe interactions in the developing zebrafish

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Enhanced Susceptibility to Salmonella Infection in Streptomycin-Treated Mice*

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Relationship between cystic fibrosis respiratory tract bacterial communities and age, genotype, antibiotics and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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The nineteenth century roots of 'everything is everywhere'

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Oral biofilms: a reservoir of transferable, bacterial, antimicrobial resistance.

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The developing intestinal microbiome and its relationship to health and disease in the neonate

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The role of the intestinal microbiota in enteric infection

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Transmission of Mother’s Microflora to the Newborn at Birth

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Rapid fluctuation of the vaginal microbiota measured by Gram stain analysis

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Modeling Infection Transmission

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Linking metacommunity theory and symbiont evolutionary ecology

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The Intestinal Bacteria of the Neonate and Breast-Fed Infant

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The habitat, double life, citizenship, and forgetfulness of IgA

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Convergent temporal dynamics of the human infant gut microbiota

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Adaptive Environmental Management

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EVALUATING THE LONG-TERM METACOMMUNITY DYNAMICS OF TREE HOLE MOSQUITOES

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Chapter 4 Community assembly dynamics in space

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Faecal microbiota in breast‐fed infants after antibiotic therapy

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Metacommunity organization of soil microorganisms depends on habitat defined by presence of Lobelia siphilitica plants

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Guiding authors to reliably use taxonomic names

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Antagonism exerted by an association of a Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron strain and a Fusobacterium necrogenes strain against Clostridium perfringens in gnotobiotic mice and in fecal suspensions incubated in vitro

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Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune System

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Dynamics and Stabilization of the Human Gut Microbiome during the First Year of Life

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Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome

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Gut bacteria selectively promoted by dietary fibers alleviate type 2 diabetes

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Diet–microbiota interactions as moderators of human metabolism

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Gut microbiota are related to Parkinson's disease and clinical phenotype

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The first microbial colonizers of the human gut: composition, activities, and health implications of the infant gut microbiota

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