Bacteroides plebeius
RANK: Species
TAXONOMY: Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi group -> Bacteroidetes -> Bacteroidia -> Bacteroidales -> Bacteroidaceae -> Bacteroides -> Bacteroides plebeius
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Bacteroides plebeius in known to digest complex carbohydrates in seaweed, and likely acquired this ability via horizontal gene transfer from a marine bacterium many centuries ago. Thus it is not surprising that foreign-born Korean participants in our study were the only group with enrichment of Bacteroides plebeius, being the only group under study with seaweed as a regular dietary component ... Bacteroides plebeiusm, a seaweed-degrading bacterium, was strongly enriched in foreign-born Koreans, while Prevotella copri and Bifidobacterium adolescentis were strongly enriched in foreign-born Koreans and Hispanics … Dietary acculturation may result in loss of native species in immigrants [ISME Journal. 2020 Jul;14(7):1639-1650].
Identified as constituent of vaginal microbiome. [PMID:23282177]
This species has been identified as a resident in the human gastrointestinal tract based on the phylogenetic framework of its small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences.[PMC 4262072]
COGEM | COGEM released a comprehensive database of pathogenicity assessment of around 2575 bacterial species in 2011. The database ranks the pathogenicity of species on a scale of 1 to 4. Bacteroides plebeius ranks on this scale: | Identified as a 'core species' of the human gut microbiome. [PMID: 23222524]
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