Microbiota (microbiology) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 18/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiota


00:00:49 1 Introduction
00:01:41 1.1 Types of host relationships
00:02:45 1.2 Acquisition and change
00:03:28 2 Microbiota by host
00:03:48 2.1 Humans
00:04:40 2.2 Non-human animals
00:07:56 2.3 Plants
00:09:14 3 Functions
00:09:32 3.1 Immune system
00:11:07 3.2 Endocrine system
00:11:55 3.3 Metabolism
00:12:25 4 Co-evolution of microbiota
00:15:45 5 Research methods
00:15:55 5.1 Targeted amplicon sequencing
00:18:33 5.2 Metagenomic sequencing
00:20:35 5.3 RNA and protein-based approaches
00:21:13 6 Projects
00:23:01 7 Privacy issues



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SUMMARY
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A microbiota is an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms" found in and on all multicellular organisms studied to date from plants to animals. A microbiota includes bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi and viruses. Microbiota have been found to be crucial for immunologic, hormonal and metabolic homeostasis of their host.
The synonymous term microbiome describes either the collective genomes of the microorganisms that reside in an environmental niche or the microorganisms themselves.The microbiome and host emerged during evolution as a synergistic unit from epigenetics and genetic characteristics, sometimes collectively referred to as a holobiont.