Different Substrate Preferences Help Closely Related Bacteria To Coexist in the Gut

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I receive financial support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Heterologous ectoine production in Escherichia coli : By-passing the metabolic bottle-neck

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Dietary fibre optimisation in support of global health

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ASR is part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Action Against Stunting Hub (grant number MR/S01313X/1), and PL received funding from the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Service and Analytical Services Division (RESAS). Figures were created with BioRender.com.Peer reviewe

Some are more equal than others : the role of ‘keystone’ species in the degradation of recalcitrant substrates

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Why does increased microbial fermentation in the human colon shift toward butyrate?

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Process-based modelling of Microbial community dynamics in the human colon

Acknowledgments We thank the Scottish Goverment’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS) for funding this research. Funding Statement The Scottish Goverment’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Ser581 vices Division (RESAS) funded this researchPeer reviewedPostprin

Dietary fibre complexity and its influence on functional groups of the human gut microbiota

Open Access via the Cambridge University Press Agreement Acknowledgments We would like to thank Professor Wendy Russell (University of Aberdeen) and Professor Stephen Fry (University of Edinburgh) for useful discussions and Ms Pat Bain (University of Aberdeen) for graphics support. Financial Support PL, SHD and AWW receive funding from the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) division. MS is funded by a Rowett Institute RESAS studentship and a University of Aberdeen Elphinstone Scholarship. IM is funded by an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant in partnership with Enterobiotix Ltd and University of Aberdeen (Partnership No. KTP 12019)Peer reviewedPublisher PD

microPop: modelling microbial populations and communities in R

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Motor anticipation failure in infants with autism: a retrospective analysis of feeding situations

Previous studies on autism have shown a lack of motor anticipation in children and adults with autism. As part of a programme of research into early detection of autism, we focussed on an everyday situation: spoon-feeding. We hypothesize that an anticipation deficit may be found very early on by observing whether the baby opens his or her mouth in anticipation of the spoon's approach. The study is based on a retrospective analysis from family home movies. Observation of infants later diagnosed with autism or an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (n = 13) and infants with typical development (n = 14) between 4 and 6 months old show that the autism/ASD group has an early anticipation deficit

Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements : compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro

Funding Michael Solvang was funded by a Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science & Analytical Services (RESAS) PhD studentship and Freda Farquharson, Graham Horgan, Wendy Russell and Petra Louis also received financial support from RESAS. The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Maxwell Compute Cluster funded by the University of Aberdeen.Peer reviewedPublisher PD