Microbiome-Host Interactions
Microbiota are a promising and fascinating subject in biology because they integrate the microbial communities in humans animals plants and the environment. In humans microbiota are associated with the gut skin and genital oral and respiratory organs. The plant microbial community is referred to as holobiont and it is influential in the maintenance and health of plants which themselves play a role in animal health and the environment. The contents of Microbiome-Host Interactions cover all areas as well as new research trends in the fields of plant animal human and environmental microbiome interactions. The book covers microbiota in polar soil environments in health and disease in Caenorhabditis elegans and in agroecosystems as well as in rice root and actinorhizal root nodules speleothems and marine shallow-water hydrothermal vents. Moreover this book provides comprehensive accounts of advanced next-generation DNA sequencing metagenomic techniques high-throughput 16S rRNA sequencing and understanding nucleic acid sequence data from fungal algal viral bacterial cyanobacterial actinobacterial and archaeal communities using QIIME software (Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology). FEATURES Summarizes recent insight in microbiota and host interactions in distinct habitats including Antarctic hydrothermal vents speleothems oral skin gut feces reproductive tract soil root root nodules forests and mangroves Illustrates the high-throughput amplicon sequencing computational techniques involved in the microbiota analysis downstream analysis and visualization and multivariate analysis commonly used for microbiome analysis Describes probiotics and prebiotics in the composition of the gut microbiota skin microbiome impact in dermatologic disease prevention and microbial communities in the reproductive tract of humans and animals Presents information in a reachable way for students teachers researchers microbiologists computational biologists and other professionals who are interested in strengthening or enlarging their knowledge about microbiome analysis with next-generation DNA sequencing in the different branches of the sciences
