Definition of microbiota in English:
microbiota
nounˌmʌɪkrəʊbʌɪˈəʊtəˌmīkrōˌbīˈōdə
mass nounThe microorganisms of a particular site, habitat, or geological period.
Example sentencesExamples
- The importance of microbial spatial relationships for the functioning of the termite gut microbiota have recently been discussed in detail.
- Abnormal vaginal microbiota could even be secondary to defective protection of the mucosal immune system.
- Therefore, we examined the effect of starvation over time on the intestinal microbiota of Atlantic salmon.
- They are members of the bacterioplankton and enteric microbiota of vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as saprophytes in marine environments in wounds and on the surfaces of dead animals.
- The hindgut microbiota of termites includes an abundant and morphologically diverse population of spirochetes.
- We begin to collect these billions of microbiota the moment we begin to pass down our mother's birth canal.
- These specialised organisms form an integral part of the adult colonic microbiota and may be involved in inflammatory bowel disease due to the effects of sulphide toxicity in the gut.
- Furthermore, it is likely that most herbivorous dinosaurs employed a mutualistic gut microbiota.
- Different shades of dark gray are also shown by mummified plant and animal fragments and by dehydrated components of microbiota.
- Antibiotic use is the most common and significant cause of major alterations in normal GIT microbiota.
- It seems likely that the mycorrhizal plants were able to compete effectively with the wider soil microbiota and tap directly into the high quality organic resource patch via their extra-radical mycelium.
- Somewhere between 5 and 10 miles you may start to exceed temperatures for known earth microbiota.
- Contrasting morphology, which is readily apparent in these close associations, attests to the diverse nature of the microbiota.
- In the figure is a central channel, and in the lower part of the image microbiota are apparent owing to their mineralization.
- Finally, SEM allowed visualizing the microbiota trapped in the bubbles.
- During the developmental period from birth through weaning, the intestinal microbiota undergoes a rapid ecological succession.
- The normal microbiota in this anoxic environment are composed of bacteria, ciliate and flagellate protozoa, and anaerobic chytridiomycete fungi.
- However, limitations imposed by these culture based studies have precluded a standardized description of the rumen microbiota.
- Our dependence on our indigenous microbiota is further confirmed by the fact that many of the abnormalities one finds in germ-free animals are rapidly corrected if the animals are brought into contact with the right kind of bacteria.
- What properties of spirochetes (or of the termite gut itself) enable them to become such a prominent component of the microbiota?