生物
生态学
生物多样性
捕食
适应性
生态系统
生态位
失调
肠道菌群
捕食者
多样性(政治)
栖息地
免疫学
人类学
社会学
作者
Alexis Mosca,Marion Leclerc,Jean‐Pierre Hugot
标识
DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00455
摘要
Most of the Human diseases affecting westernized countries are associated with dysbiosis and loss of microbial diversity in the gut microbiota. The Western way of life, with a wide use of antibiotics and other environmental triggers, may reduce the number of bacterial predators leading to a decrease in microbial diversity of the Human gut. We argue that this phenomenon is similar to the process of ecosystem impoverishment in macro ecology where human activity decreases ecological niches, the size of predator populations, and finally the biodiversity. Such pauperization is fundamental since it reverses the evolution processes, drives life backward into diminished complexity, stability, and adaptability. A simple therapeutic approach could thus be to reintroduce bacterial predators and restore a bacterial diversity of the host microbiota.
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