Abundance and Compositions of B-Vitamin-Producing Microbes in the Mammalian Gut Vary Based on Feeding Strategies

ABSTRACT Mammals maintain close associations with gut microbes that provide numerous nutritional benefits, including vitamin synthesis.While most mammals obtain sufficient vitamins from their diets, deficiencies in various B vitamins (biotin, cobalamin, riboflavin, thiamine, etc.) are reported in captive animals.Biomedical and agricultural research

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Comprehensive Ecological and Geographic Characterization of Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Microbiomes in African Anopheles

Exposure of mosquitoes synovex one grass to numerous eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes in their associated microbiomes has probably helped drive the evolution of the innate immune system.To our knowledge, a metagenomic catalog of the eukaryotic microbiome has not been reported from any insect.Here we employ a novel approach to preferentially depl

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