Oliver Deusch

TL;DR: The species identified were very similar to those observed in canine plaque in the corresponding health and disease states, suggesting that interventions targeted at human pathogenic species will not be effective for use in cats but there is more potential for commonalities in interventions for cats and dogs.

TL;DR: The ability to distinguish the niches by their microbiota signature offers the potential for microbial biomarkers to be identified in each unique niche for diagnostic use.

TL;DR: After the transfer to the nuclear genome, the plastid-derived genes have undergone a massive intron invasion that, by the time of the divergence of dicots and monocots, yielded intron densities only slightly lower than those in ancestral genes.

TL;DR: Porphyromonas cangingivalis is the most prevalent canine oral bacterial species in both plaque from healthy gingiva and plaque from dogs with early periodontitis as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The metagenome data is used, which captures the ratio of bacterial to plant DNA in leaves of wild plants, to scale the 16S rDNA amplicon data such that they reflect absolute bacterial abundance, and it is shown that this cost-effective hybrid strategy overcomes compositionality problems in ampliconData and leads to fundamentally different conclusions about microbiome community assembly.