Jeroen Raes

TL;DR: This study highlights the potential utility of combined use of inference tools to identify ecologically meaningful bacterial associations in soils and other environmental samples and finds that highly linked nodes, which are often referred to as “keystone species” and are frequently interpreted as the species playing important roles in soils, are tool dependent.

TL;DR: C cohousing experiments revealed that the colitogenic activity of the WT microbiota is transferable to Casp3/11−/− mice and that Prevotella species are likely to be involved and underscore the need for in-depth studies of the bilateral interaction of host genes and microbiota to gain insight into the mechanisms of disease pathogenesis.

TL;DR: It is suggested that UCYN-A diversified in a co-evolutionary process, wherein their prymnesiophyte partners acted as a barrier driving an allopatric speciation of extant UCYN -A lineages.

TL;DR: The results suggest that vectoring of a wide spectrum of environmental microbes occurs principally through the external fly body surface, while the internal microbiome is likely more limited by fly physiology.

TL;DR: The rise of meta-omics projects such as MetaHIT and the Human Microbiome Project and the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition aiming at unraveling the structure and function of specific microbiomes in different habitats was observed.