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Standard Operating Procedure for Lyssavirus Surveillance of the Bat Population in Taiwan
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This protocol introduces a standard laboratory operating procedure for diagnostic testing of lyssavirus antigens in bats in Taiwan.
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Profiling the Triacylglyceride Contents in Bat Integumentary Lipids by Preparative Thin Layer Chromatography and MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
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2013
Mammalian integument contains solvent-extractable lipids that can provide chemical compositions characteristic of individual species. This paper presents a routine method for separating broad lipid classes isolated from integumentary tissues using thin layer chromatography and determining the triacylglyceride profile by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
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Microbiome of the Eye
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2026
The human eye has a specialized microbiota that reflects its unique anatomical and immunological environment. This low-biomass microbial community predominantly colonizes the conjunctiva and eyelid margins, playing a vital role in ocular surface homeostasis and defense. Despite its proximity to the richly colonized facial skin, the ocular surface maintains a distinct microbial profile due to continuous mechanical and biochemical defense mechanisms.The conjunctival surface hosts fewer microbial...
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Co-culture of Living Microbiome with Microengineered Human Intestinal Villi in a Gut-on-a-Chip Microfluidic Device
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We describe an in vitro protocol to co-culture gut microbiome and intestinal villi for an extended period using a human gut-on-a-chip microphysiological system.
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Application of Flow Vermimetry for Quantification and Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Gut Microbiome
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2023
Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful model to examine the molecular determinants driving host-microbiome interactions. We present a high throughput pipeline profiling the single animal levels of gut microbiome colonization together with key aspects of the C. elegans physiology.
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Each body site provides a distinct local environment and interacts differently with host tissues. Microbial communities in these locations may therefore contribute to separate biological functions, including nutrient processing in the gut, defense at the skin, or interactions with respiratory tissues. Comparing sites helps reveal how microbial activity relates to bat physiology and infection resistance.
Microorganisms can affect bat biology through interactions with host tissues and with one another. These relationships may change how nutrients are processed, how immune responses develop, and how effectively the host resists infection. Examining these mechanisms helps researchers distinguish microbial contributions to health from broader influences such as diet, habitat, or disease exposure.
Diet can change the resources available to microorganisms, while habitat may expose bats to different environmental conditions and microbial communities. Migration can connect populations to multiple habitats and potentially shift microbial diversity over time. Studying these factors together helps explain ecological adaptation and identifies environmental patterns associated with changes in host-associated microorganisms.
Researchers can examine microbial communities from sites such as the gut, skin, and respiratory tract, then compare their diversity with host or environmental information. Comparisons among populations can incorporate diet, habitat, migration, and disease status. This approach links variation in microbial communities to biological and ecological conditions rather than treating the microbiome as uniform.
Bats can serve as reservoirs of pathogens, making microbial research relevant to monitoring disease-related patterns. Examining microorganisms alongside host condition, body site, habitat, and population context may help identify associations between microbial diversity and infection. Such surveillance supports a broader understanding of pathogen ecology without assuming that every microorganism detected causes disease.
This research provides a model for studying host-microbe relationships across physiology, ecology, and disease. It can connect microbial diversity with nutritional conditions, environmental change, migration, immune responses, and infection resistance. The resulting knowledge supports wildlife conservation and helps explain how bats adapt to ecological pressures while maintaining complex relationships with microorganisms.