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"The gut microbial community, called the gut microbiota, plays an important role in health for both humans and animals. The bacterial members of this community are the most numerous and consequently get the most attention in research. However, there are often overlooked but important fungi, viruses, archaea, and protozoa in the microbiota too. The fungal subset of a microbiota is called the mycobiota, and it is particularly understudied in birds. To close this gap, a recent study comprehensively characterized the mycobiota of chickens bred for meat. While gut bacterial communities typically stabilize with age, the chicken mycobiota was dynamic over time with no clear pattern of successive changes and low overall diversity. The upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract mycobiota was more diverse than the lower tract mycobiota, and just 25 core fungal groups accounted for more than 85% of the fungal population in each section of the GI tract..."

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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Growing scientific evidence suggests that gut fungi play a prominent role in the development of disease. To understand how the body mounts an immune response to certain fungi during disease, researchers developed a flow cytometry method called Fungi-Flow, which measures immune responses according to levels of IgG antibodies. The team measured the immune responses of various individuals to 17 commensal and environmental fungi.vIgG responses to different fungi varied strongly between healthy individuals, and Fungi-Flow proved sensitive enough to differentiate immune responses between the sporulated and budding forms of fungi. Experiments probing the composition of fungal communities revealed the presence of two distinct clusters, or ecosystems. Differences between the ecosystems were mainly driven by highly abundant fungi of the genus Saccharomyces but also by less abundant fungi such as Cyberlindnera..."

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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Children in daycare centers are exposed to various bacteria and fungi. Exposure to certain indoor fungi can lead to adverse health effects, but the extent to which the fungal community, or mycobiome, affects children in daycares remains unclear. To learn more, a recent study investigated the indoor mycobiomes of two daycare centers in Norway over the course of a year. DNA metabarcoding of dust samples from the daycares revealed that less-used rooms had fungal communities similar to the outdoor mycobiome, which were markedly different from the communities in the main rooms. The less-used rooms tended to have more Basidiomycota species. while the main rooms had more Ascomycota species. The indoor mycobiome composition was also strongly affected by the outdoor climate, exhibiting clear seasonality..."

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