Age and Gender Affect the Composition of Fungal Population of the Human Gastrointestinal Tract.

ABSTRACT: The fungal component of the human gut microbiota has been neglected for long time due to the low relative abundance of fungi with respect to bacteria, and only recently few reports have explored its composition and dynamics in health or disease. The application of metagenomics methods to the full understanding of fungal communities is currently limited by the under representation of fungal DNA with respect to the bacterial one, as well as by the limited ability to discriminate passengers from colonizers. Here, we investigated the gut mycobiota of a cohort of healthy subjects in order to reduce the gap of knowledge concerning fungal intestinal communities in the healthy status further screening for phenotypical traits that could reflect fungi adaptation to the host. We studied the fecal fun

SUBMITTER: Strati F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4971113 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature