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The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities
As it is the case with natural substrates, artificial surfaces of man-made devices are home to a myriad of microbial species. Artificial products are not necessarily characterized by human-associated microbiomes; instead, they can present original microbial populations shaped by specific environment...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10304627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37375009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11061507 |
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author | Satari, Leila Iglesias, Alba Porcar, Manuel |
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description | As it is the case with natural substrates, artificial surfaces of man-made devices are home to a myriad of microbial species. Artificial products are not necessarily characterized by human-associated microbiomes; instead, they can present original microbial populations shaped by specific environmental—often extreme—selection pressures. This review provides a detailed insight into the microbial ecology of a range of artificial devices, machines, and appliances, which we argue are specific microbial niches that do not necessarily fit in the “build environment” microbiome definition. Instead, we propose here the Microbiome of Things (MoT) concept analogous to the Internet of Things (IoT) because we believe it may be useful to shed light on human-made, but not necessarily human-related, unexplored microbial niches. |
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spelling | pubmed-103046272023-06-29 The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities Satari, Leila Iglesias, Alba Porcar, Manuel Microorganisms Review As it is the case with natural substrates, artificial surfaces of man-made devices are home to a myriad of microbial species. Artificial products are not necessarily characterized by human-associated microbiomes; instead, they can present original microbial populations shaped by specific environmental—often extreme—selection pressures. This review provides a detailed insight into the microbial ecology of a range of artificial devices, machines, and appliances, which we argue are specific microbial niches that do not necessarily fit in the “build environment” microbiome definition. Instead, we propose here the Microbiome of Things (MoT) concept analogous to the Internet of Things (IoT) because we believe it may be useful to shed light on human-made, but not necessarily human-related, unexplored microbial niches. MDPI 2023-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10304627/ /pubmed/37375009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11061507 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Satari, Leila Iglesias, Alba Porcar, Manuel The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities |
title | The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities |
title_full | The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities |
title_fullStr | The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities |
title_full_unstemmed | The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities |
title_short | The Microbiome of Things: Appliances, Machines, and Devices Hosting Artificial Niche-Adapted Microbial Communities |
title_sort | microbiome of things: appliances, machines, and devices hosting artificial niche-adapted microbial communities |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10304627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37375009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11061507 |
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