0 the microorganisms (= living things too small to be seen) that exist in a particular environment or in the human body: --
Microorganisms found in a wide range of ecosystems, including the human microbiome, are studied.
It is analogous to the genome, the metabolome (describing metabolites), the proteome (describing general protein expression), the microbiome etc.
The bacterial part of microbiome has been addressed more deeply.
Microbial communities of 649 metagenomes drawn from seven primary body sites on 102 individuals were studied as part of the human microbiome project.
The total number of genes associated with the human microbiome could exceed the total number of human genes by a factor of 100-to-one.
In this context "gut" is synonymous with "intestinal", and "flora" with "microbiota" and "microflora"; the word "microbiome" is also in use.
They found that the two species harbor different microbial communities and that the microbiome changes over the lifetime of the bees.
This includes the study of gut microbiome community, metabolism, immunity, homeostasis, pathogenesis, inflammation, and diseases.
