Spatial heterogeneity and co-occurrence patterns of human mucosal-associated intestinal microbiota

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 881 - 893
• Main Authors: Zhang, Zhigang, Geng, Jiawei, Tang, Xiaodan, Fan, Hong, Xu, Jinchao, Wen, Xiujun, Ma, Zhanshan (Sam), Shi, Peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2014; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/326/2565/855; 631/326/41; 692/698/2741/2135; Adult; Bacteria; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Distribution patterns; Ecology; Ecosystem; Evolutionary Biology; Female; Flora; Heterogeneity; Humans; Intestinal Mucosa - microbiology; Life Sciences; Male; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Microbiota - genetics; Microbiota - physiology; Middle Aged; Models, Biological; Original; original-article; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Spatial analysis; Spatial distribution; Young Adult; microbiota; systems biology; intestine; spatial scaling; ecological model

Human gut microbiota shows high inter-subject variations, but the actual spatial distribution and co-occurrence patterns of gut mucosa microbiota that occur within a healthy human instestinal tract remain poorly understood. In this study, we illustrated a model of this mucosa bacterial communities’...