New Key Publication:Gut microbial co-abundance networks show specificity in inflammatory bowel disease and obesity | Nature Communications

Gut microbiome alterations have been linked to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and obesity. Here, the authors characterize the metagenomes of four large human cohorts and perform co-abundance network analysis showing that dysbiosis in disease is marked by the altered co-abundance relationships, suggesting that pathway coabundance networks are more heterogeneous than species network. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17840-y

Behind the paper: The microbes in your gut do not live alone

By:

• Lianmin Chen

• Valerie Collij

• Martin Jaeger

• Inge C. L. van den Munckhof

• Arnau Vich Vila

• Alexander Kurilshikov

• Ranko Gacesa

• Trishla Sinha

• Marije Oosting

• Leo A. B. Joosten

• Joost H. W. Rutten

• Niels P. Riksen

• Ramnik J. Xavier

• Folkert Kuipers

• Cisca Wijmenga

• Alexandra Zhernakova

• Mihai G. Netea

• Rinse K. Weersma

• Jingyuan Fu