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Age‐related prevalence of M ethanomassiliicoccus luminyensis in the human gut microbiome
Author(s) -
Dridi Bédis,
Henry Mireille,
Richet Hervé,
Raoult Didier,
Drancourt Michel
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
apmis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0903-4641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2012.02899.x
Subject(s) - archaea , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , microbiome , 16s ribosomal rna , feces , bacteria , human microbiome , genetics
A 16S rDNA sequence‐based investigation of methanogenic Archaea in the human stools found Methanobrevibacter smithii in 99.2% and M ethanosphaera stadtmanae in 32.6%. The recently described M ethanomassiliicoccus luminyensis found by others to be representative of a new order of methanogenic Archaea was found in 4% of stool specimens. The prevalence of M . luminyensis significantly increased with age, contrary to M . smithii and M . stadtmanae .