What is it about?
The gut mycobiome impacts the hosts metabolic adaption to their diet, in particular diets high in processed foods. Here we utilized differences in the mycobiome of mice from different vendors to examine how different diets (chow vs processed food) altered host metabolism and body composition.
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Why is it important?
This is the first paper showing broad impact of the mouse mycobiome on metabolism.
Perspectives
This paper highlights the potential importance of the mycobiome for metabolic research and suggests that the majority of work that has focused solely on the bacterial microbiome may be incomplete.
Dr Kent Willis
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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This page is a summary of: The gut mycobiome of healthy mice is shaped by the environment and correlates with metabolic outcomes in response to diet, Communications Biology, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01820-z.
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