Chapter 21
Culture-Independent Analysis of the Human Gut Microbiota and their Activities
Jonathan Swann, Selena E. Richards,
Qing Shen,
Elaine Holmes, Julian R. Marchesi,
Kieran Tuohy,
Selena E. Richards
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorQing Shen
The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorJulian R. Marchesi
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Scotland, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorKieran Tuohy
IASMA Research and Innovation Center, Michele, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorJonathan Swann, Selena E. Richards,
Qing Shen,
Elaine Holmes, Julian R. Marchesi,
Kieran Tuohy,
Selena E. Richards
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorQing Shen
The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorJulian R. Marchesi
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Scotland, United Kingdom
Search for more papers by this authorKieran Tuohy
IASMA Research and Innovation Center, Michele, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorBook Editor(s):Frans J. de Bruijn,
Frans J. de Bruijn
Laboratory of Plant Micro-organism Interaction, CNRS-INRA, Castanet Tolosan, France
Search for more papers by this authorSummary
This chapter contains sections titled:
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Introduction
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The Microbiota of the Alimentary Canal: Mouth to Anus
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Culture-Independent Gut Microbiology
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Metabonomics
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Trans-Omics Approaches to Studying the Gut Microbiota-Mammalian Host Interactions
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Correlation Analysis of Fish and Metabonomic Datasets
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Data Formatting
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Procedures
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Create the Correlation Matrix
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Multiple Testing
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Significant Correlation Matrix
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Plot Significant Correlations
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Conclusions
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References
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