Important: Please note that Systems Microbiology does not consider descriptive studies that are solely based on amplicon (e.g., 16S rRNA) profiles, unless they are accompanied by a clear hypothesis and experimentation, and provide insight into the microbiological system or process being studied.
Pollution of water and terrestrial environments by contaminants such as pathogens and heavy metals is a serious issue due to their impact on animal and human health. The pathogenic environmental microbiota is transmitted to animals and humans via the food web, which causes several diseases. To prevent the hazards imposed by pathogens, antibiotics had been widely applied to organisms. However, their extreme employment has negatively affected the gut microbiota giving rise to antibiotic-resistant genes in some intestinal microorganisms. In addition, contaminants also cause gut microbial dysbiosis. All such microbes enter the environment through sources like waste effluents or open defecation, which in turn affects many vertebrates.
As this cycle is inevitable, the application of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics as dietary supplements has received increasing global attention to protect organisms from pathogens and several other contaminants. The digestive tract, especially the gut, plays a vital role in maintaining health. Prebiotics, like plant fibers, have been widely used to improve the healthy balance of the gut microbial community by providing nutrition. On the other hand, probiotics have not only been reported to repair polluted environments but also improve individual health due to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and gut-modulatory properties. The combination of pre and probiotics known as synbiotics can simultaneously act to enhance these positive effects.
In this Research Topic, the concept of “one-health” refers to the health of organisms, and their interconnection with the environment. This Research Topic welcomes all kinds of one-health research that focuses on vertebrates. It also focuses on the need to utilize dietary supplements to regulate the gut-organ axis by elucidating digestive tract microbiota for one-health and developing strategies to improve the gastrointestinal environment. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts focusing on the following topics, but not limited to:
1. Linkage of environmental microbiota with the health of vertebrates
2. The migration, colonization, and function of microbes in the environment-host interaction
3. Interaction of pathogens and other contaminants with gut microbiota
4. Advantages of using prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics to the host and their linked ecosystem
5. Importance of probiotics in environmental bioremediation
6. Gut microbiota regulatory functions of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics: Can they satisfactorily eliminate multiple contaminants?
Important: Please note that Systems Microbiology does not consider descriptive studies that are solely based on amplicon (e.g., 16S rRNA) profiles, unless they are accompanied by a clear hypothesis and experimentation, and provide insight into the microbiological system or process being studied.
Pollution of water and terrestrial environments by contaminants such as pathogens and heavy metals is a serious issue due to their impact on animal and human health. The pathogenic environmental microbiota is transmitted to animals and humans via the food web, which causes several diseases. To prevent the hazards imposed by pathogens, antibiotics had been widely applied to organisms. However, their extreme employment has negatively affected the gut microbiota giving rise to antibiotic-resistant genes in some intestinal microorganisms. In addition, contaminants also cause gut microbial dysbiosis. All such microbes enter the environment through sources like waste effluents or open defecation, which in turn affects many vertebrates.
As this cycle is inevitable, the application of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics as dietary supplements has received increasing global attention to protect organisms from pathogens and several other contaminants. The digestive tract, especially the gut, plays a vital role in maintaining health. Prebiotics, like plant fibers, have been widely used to improve the healthy balance of the gut microbial community by providing nutrition. On the other hand, probiotics have not only been reported to repair polluted environments but also improve individual health due to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and gut-modulatory properties. The combination of pre and probiotics known as synbiotics can simultaneously act to enhance these positive effects.
In this Research Topic, the concept of “one-health” refers to the health of organisms, and their interconnection with the environment. This Research Topic welcomes all kinds of one-health research that focuses on vertebrates. It also focuses on the need to utilize dietary supplements to regulate the gut-organ axis by elucidating digestive tract microbiota for one-health and developing strategies to improve the gastrointestinal environment. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts focusing on the following topics, but not limited to:
1. Linkage of environmental microbiota with the health of vertebrates
2. The migration, colonization, and function of microbes in the environment-host interaction
3. Interaction of pathogens and other contaminants with gut microbiota
4. Advantages of using prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics to the host and their linked ecosystem
5. Importance of probiotics in environmental bioremediation
6. Gut microbiota regulatory functions of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics: Can they satisfactorily eliminate multiple contaminants?