Gut microbiota plays a crucial role in resisting the invasion of pathogens, particularly multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, which pose a significant threat to public health. While exercise offers numerous health benefits, its impact on host colonization resistance remains largely unclear. In thi...

Limited resource availability in the gut promotes competitive interactions between bacteria, which drive adaptive within-host evolution. While the role of bacterial adaptive evolution of bacterial communities has been extensively studied, its functional implications for host physiology remain unk...

Cecal contents metabolomics analysis of DSS-induced colitis mice and DSS-induced colitis mice with V. parvula colonization.

Colonization resistance is a fundamental ecological function of the gut microbiota that limits the expansion of enteric pathogens. Yet, the microbial effectors linking ecosystem homeostasis to pathogen control remain poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that Salmonella Enteritidis (S. Enteriti...

The gut microbiota is essential to host health. Probiotics can be used as a microbiota targeted therapy to improve host health. However, probiotic molecular mechanisms of action and probiotics targeting the small intestinal microbiota are often not elucidated. In this study, we construct a three ...

Associations between animals and microbes affect not only the immediate tissues where they occur, but also the entire host. Metabolomics, the study of small biomolecules generated during metabolic processes, provides a window into how mutualistic interactions shape host biochemistry. The Hawaiian...