Home life: factors structuring the bacterial diversity found within and between homes.
Home life: factors structuring the bacterial diversity found within and between homes.
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DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0064133
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发表时间:
2013
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Menninger HL
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作者:
Dunn RR;Fierer N;Henley JB;Leff JW;Menninger HL
Most of our time is spent indoors where we are exposed to a wide array of different microorganisms living on surfaces and in the air of our homes. Despite their ubiquity and abundance, we have a limited understanding of the microbial diversity found within homes and how the composition and diversity of microbial communities change across different locations within the home. Here we examined the diversity of bacterial communities found in nine distinct locations within each of forty homes in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, USA, using high-throughput sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. We found that each of the sampled locations harbored bacterial communities that were distinct from one another with surfaces that are regularly cleaned typically harboring lower levels of diversity than surfaces that are cleaned infrequently. These location-specific differences in bacterial communities could be directly related to usage patterns and differences in the likely sources of bacteria dispersed onto these locations. Finally, we examined whether the variability across homes in bacterial diversity could be attributed to outdoor environmental factors, indoor habitat structure, or the occupants of the home. We found that the presence of dogs had a significant effect on bacterial community composition in multiple locations within homes as the homes occupied by dogs harbored more diverse communities and higher relative abundances of dog-associated bacterial taxa. Furthermore, we found a significant correlation between the types of bacteria deposited on surfaces outside the home and those found inside the home, highlighting that microbes from outside the home can have a direct effect on the microbial communities living on surfaces within our homes. Together this work provides the first comprehensive analysis of the microbial communities found in the home and the factors that shape the structure of these communities both within and between homes.
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影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Hewitt KM;Gerba CP;Maxwell SL;Kelley ST
通讯作者:
Kelley ST
DOI:
10.1038/ismej.2012.8
发表时间:
2012-08
期刊:
The ISME journal
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1205624109
发表时间:
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影响因子:
11.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
Haahtela, Tari
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1000162107
发表时间:
2010-04-06
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
Knight, Rob
影响因子:
5.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
Fierer, Noah