Ruminants have the remarkable ability to convert human-indigestible plant biomass into
human-digestible food products, due to a complex microbiome residing in the rumen …

In this minireview, we examine horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events in the mammalian
gastrointestinal tract and their role in the evolutionary adaptation of microorganisms to the gut …

Microbial communities are essential to the function of virtually all ecosystems and eukaryotes,
including humans. However, it is still a major challenge to identify microbial cells active …

Motivation Plasmids and other mobile elements are central contributors to microbial
evolution and genome innovation. Recently, they have been found to have important roles in …

Ruminants sustain a long-lasting obligatory relationship with their rumen microbiome dating
back 50 million years. In this unique host-microbiome relationship, the host’s ability to digest …

Lactobacillus plantarum is an attractive candidate for bioprocessing of lignocellulosic
biomass due to its high metabolic variability, including its ability to ferment both pentoses and …

Background Lactobacillus plantarum is an attractive candidate for metabolic engineering
towards bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol or polylactic acid, as its natural …

Recent work characterized the chicken reproductive tract (oviduct) microbiome composition
and its similarity to the egg and chick microbiomes. However, the origin of the oviduct …

… at the end of the first experiment utilizing broilers, n=9 (A), and the end of the second
experiment utilizing layers n=7 for control and n=6 for all other groups except L. salivarius that had …

The mammalian gut houses a complex microbial community which is believed to play a
significant role in host physiology. In recent years, several microbial community analysis …