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Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, July 2010
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Title
Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers
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Nature, July 2010
DOI 10.1038/nature09199
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Alejandro Reyes, Matthew Haynes, Nicole Hanson, Florent E. Angly, Andrew C. Heath, Forest Rohwer, Jeffrey I. Gordon

Abstract

Viral diversity and life cycles are poorly understood in the human gut and other body habitats. Phages and their encoded functions may provide informative signatures of a human microbiota and of microbial community responses to various disturbances, and may indicate whether community health or dysfunction is manifest after apparent recovery from a disease or therapeutic intervention. Here we report sequencing of the viromes (metagenomes) of virus-like particles isolated from faecal samples collected from healthy adult female monozygotic twins and their mothers at three time points over a one-year period. We compared these data sets with data sets of sequenced bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA genes and total-faecal-community DNA. Co-twins and their mothers share a significantly greater degree of similarity in their faecal bacterial communities than do unrelated individuals. In contrast, viromes are unique to individuals regardless of their degree of genetic relatedness. Despite remarkable interpersonal variations in viromes and their encoded functions, intrapersonal diversity is very low, with >95% of virotypes retained over the period surveyed, and with viromes dominated by a few temperate phages that exhibit remarkable genetic stability. These results indicate that a predatory viral-microbial dynamic, manifest in a number of other characterized environmental ecosystems, is notably absent in the very distal intestine.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 41 3%
Spain 7 <1%
Brazil 7 <1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Italy 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
Other 27 2%
Unknown 1273 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 325 24%
Researcher 288 21%
Student > Master 162 12%
Student > Bachelor 138 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 62 4%
Other 238 17%
Unknown 165 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 568 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 205 15%
Immunology and Microbiology 141 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 109 8%
Environmental Science 24 2%
Other 126 9%
Unknown 205 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 100. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 March 2024.
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