"Microbiota" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The full collection of microbes (bacteria, fungi, virus, etc.) that naturally exist within a particular biological niche such as an organism, soil, a body of water, etc.
| Descriptor ID |
D064307
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.591 G16.500.275.157.049.100.500 N06.230.124.049.100.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Human Microbiome- Human Microbiome
- Human Microbiomes
- Microbiomes, Human
- Microbiome, Human
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2014 | 25 | 7 | 32 |
| 2015 | 20 | 7 | 27 |
| 2016 | 18 | 8 | 26 |
| 2017 | 21 | 5 | 26 |
| 2018 | 19 | 12 | 31 |
| 2019 | 15 | 5 | 20 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5 | 21 |
| 2021 | 19 | 2 | 21 |
| 2022 | 32 | 0 | 32 |
| 2023 | 31 | 0 | 31 |
| 2024 | 13 | 5 | 18 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microbiota" by people in Profiles.
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Nutritional Symbiosis Between Ants and Their Symbiotic Microbes. Annu Rev Entomol. 2026 Jan; 71(1):35-49.
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Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Sep; 10(9):2111-2121.
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Phylogenetic and functional diversity among Drosophila-associated metagenome-assembled genomes. mSystems. 2025 Jul 22; 10(7):e0002725.
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Genomics of host-microbiome interactions in humans. Nat Rev Genet. 2026 Jan; 27(1):62-80.
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Genome mining identifies a diversity of natural product biosynthetic capacity in human respiratory Corynebacterium strains. mSphere. 2025 Jun 25; 10(6):e0025825.
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IL-10 sensing by lung interstitial macrophages prevents bacterial dysbiosis-driven pulmonary inflammation and maintains immune homeostasis. Immunity. 2025 May 13; 58(5):1306-1326.e7.
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Harnessing the Farm Effect: Microbial Products for the Treatment and Prevention of Asthma Throughout Life. Immunol Rev. 2025 Mar; 330(1):e70012.
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Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species. Environ Microbiol. 2025 Mar; 27(3):e70077.
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Timescale of environmental change modulates metabolic guild cohesion in microbial communities. ISME J. 2025 Jan 02; 19(1).
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Ionizing radiation improves skin bacterial dysbiosis in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1520214.