Supplements

Nature Insight: Host–microbe interactions

Vol. 449, No. 7164 pp 803-842

In this supplement

• Editorial
• Feature
• Reviews

Interactions between symbiotic or pathogenic microbes and the hosts they colonize are central to both health and disease. This rapidly advancing field is now bearing the fruits of interdisciplinary efforts by microbiologists, immunologists, cell biologists, geneticists and ecologists.

Editorial

Host–microbe interactions

Claudia Lupp

doi:10.1038/449803a

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Feature

The Human Microbiome Project

Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley, Micah Hamady, Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Rob Knight & Jeffrey I. Gordon

doi:10.1038/nature06244

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Reviews

An ecological and evolutionary perspective on human–microbe mutualism and disease

Les Dethlefsen, Margaret McFall-Ngai & David A. Relman

doi:10.1038/nature06245

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Recognition of microorganisms and activation of the immune response

Ruslan Medzhitov

doi:10.1038/nature06246

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Manipulation of host-cell pathways by bacterial pathogens

Amit P. Bhavsar, Julian A. Guttman & B. Brett Finlay

doi:10.1038/nature06247

Abstract | Full Text | PDF (644KB)

Bacterial pathogenomics

Mark J. Pallen & Brendan W. Wren

doi:10.1038/nature06248

Abstract | Full Text | PDF (968KB)