microbiome
微生物组,微生物群,微生物体,微生物学组
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Microbiology.
- : the totality of microorganisms and their collective genetic material present in or on the human body or in another environment: The wide diversity of species that make up the microbiome is hard to fathom.
Examples
I see potential in the emerging field of personalized nutrition, which aims to combine new knowledge about such compounds with insights from an individual’s own genetics and microbiome to deliver customized dietary guidelines and plans.
One of the strangest findings was that astronauts’ gut microbiomes managed to bring space microbes found on the ISS back to Earth.
If so, this could be another way the ants’ microbiome makes a huge difference to the insects’ survival.
The worm, like us, has a gut and a microbiome, but that microbiome has a mere 100,000 or so members.
We already know that the microbiomes of modern hunter-gatherers and modern urban dwellers look quite different from each other.
One of the most fascinating findings is that the microbiome influences body weight.
“In the Human Microbiome Project, there were only 24 obese individuals out of 200,” Watson told The Daily Beast.