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  1. Microbiome Structure and Function: A New Framework for Interpreting Data.Gregor P. Greslehner - 2020 - Bioessays 42 (7):1900255.
    A distinction between different notions of “structure” and “function” is suggested for interpreting the overwhelming amount of data on microbiome structure and function. Sequence data, biochemical agents, interaction networks, taxonomic communities, and their dynamics can be linked to potential or actual biochemical activities, causal roles, and selected effects, respectively. This conceptual clarification has important methodological consequences for how to interpret existing data and approach open questions in contemporary microbiome research practice. In particular, the field will have to start thinking about (...)
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  • Race in the Microbiome.Amber Benezra - 2020 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 45 (5):877-902.
    Microbiome science asserts humans are made up of more microbial cells and genes than human ones, and that each person harbors their own unique microbial population. Human microbiome studies gesture toward the post-racial aspirations of personalized medicine—characterizing states of human health and illness microbially. By viewing humans as “supraorganisms” made up of millions of microbial partners, some microbiome science seems to disrupt binding historical categories often grounded in racist biology, allowing interspeciality to supersede race. But inevitably, unexamined categories of race (...)
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  • Shifting Climates, Foods, and Diseases: The Human Microbiome through Evolution.Katherine R. Amato, Thiviya Jeyakumar, Hendrik Poinar & Philippe Gros - 2019 - Bioessays 41 (10):1900034.
    Human evolution has been punctuated by climate anomalies, structuring environments, deadly infections, and altering landscapes. How well humans adapted to these new circumstances had direct effects on fitness and survival. Here, how the gut microbiome could have contributed to human evolutionary success through contributions to host nutritional buffering and infectious disease resistance is reviewed. How changes in human genetics, diet, disease exposure, and social environments almost certainly altered microbial community composition is also explored. Emerging research points to the microbiome as (...)
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