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ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2013

Experimental approaches for defining functional roles of microbes in the human gut.

Gautam Dantas, Morten O A Sommer, Patrick H Degnan, Andrew L Goodman

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Review in Annual review of microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Effects of Antibiotics on the Intestinal Microbiota of Mice.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  11. Regulating vitamin B12 biosynthesis via theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  12. Evolutionary and ecological consequences of gut microbial communities.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2019
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  15. Frontiers in immunology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gautam DantasCenter for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology and Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108; email: dantas@wustl.edu.
Morten O A Sommer
Patrick H Degnan
Andrew L Goodman

Funding

YALE UNIVERSITY CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE AWARD PROGRAMUL1RR024139 · NCRR · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SHERWIN, ROBERT S · 2006 to 2011
$56.8M
Defining the contribution of interpersonal microbial variation to drug metabolismDP2GM105456 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GOODMAN, ANDREW L · 2012 to 2017
$3.0M
METAGENOMIC ENGINEERING OF PROBIOTIC BACTERIA TO IMPROVE INTESTINAL COLONIZATIONDP2DK098089 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI DANTAS, GAUTAM · 2012 to 2012
$2.1M
Molecular recognition of vitamin B12 and related compounds in human gut microbialR01GM103574 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GOODMAN, ANDREW L · 2013 to 2016
$1.2M
Corrinoid Response of the Human Gut MicrobiotaK01DK089121 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GOODMAN, ANDREW L · 2010 to 2014
$597k
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024139NIDDK NIH HHS DP2-DK-089121NIDDK NIH HHS DP2 DK098089NIDDK NIH HHS DP2-DK098089NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK089121NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM105456NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM103574
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complex and intimate relationship between humans and their gut microbial communities is becoming less obscure, due in part to large-scale gut microbial genome-sequencing projects and culture-independent surveys of the composition and gene content of these communities. These studies build upon, and are complemented by, experimental efforts to define underlying mechanisms of host-microbe interactions in simplified model systems. This review highlights the intersection of these approaches. Experimental studies now leverage the advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing that have driven the explosion of microbial genome and community profiling projects, and the loss-of-function and gain-of-function strategies long employed in model organisms are now being extended to microbial genes, species, and communities from the human gut. These developments promise to deepen our understanding of human gut host-microbiota relationships and are readily applicable to other host-associated and free-living microbial communities.

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MetagenomicsMicrobiotaBacteriaGastrointestinal TractHumansMetagenome

Identifiers

PMID24024637
PMCPMC4718711

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