Bifidobacterium

An Examination of Data from the American Gut Project Reveals That the Dominance of the Genus Bifidobacterium Is Associated with the Diversity and Robustness of the Gut Microbiota

Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are beneficial for human health, and many strains of these two genera are widely used as probiotics. We used two large datasets published by the American Gut Project (AGP) and a gut metagenomic dataset (NBT) to …