G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (Nov 2022)
Impact of antibiotic perturbation on fecal viral communities in mice
Abstract
AbstractViruses and bacteriophages have a strong impact on intestinal barrier function and the composition and functional properties of commensal bacterial communities. Shifts of the fecal virome might be involved in human diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Loss-of-function variants in the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2C57BL/6JNOD2