The microbiome as a biosensor: functional profiles elucidate hidden stress in hosts
A. Zolti, S. J. Green, N. Sela, Y. Hadar, D. Minz
The paper demonstrates that microbial communities can detect environmental stress in host organisms by analyzing their metagenomic and metatranscriptomic profiles, revealing stress signals not captured by host transcriptomes.
bioRxiv · Sep 4, 2019Microbiology