Why Gut Microbes Matter Understanding Our Microbiome Fascinating Life Sciences

Microorganisms and the Microbiome.- The Gut Microbiome: Essential Symbionts or Unwelcome Guests?.- How to Analyse Microbial Communities?.- How Microbes Gain Energy with and Without Oxygen.- Who Inhabits Our Gut? Introducing the Human Gut Microbiota.- Variability and Stability of the Human Gut Microbiome.- How Gut Microorganisms Make Use of Available Carbohydrates.- Do My Microbes Make Me Fat? Potential for the Gut Microbiota to Influence Energy Balance, Obesity and Metabolic Health in Humans.- Gut Microbiota and Metabolites.- Host Responses to Gut Microbes.- Treating the Gut Microbiome as a System.- Perspectives and Prospects.