A structured weight loss program increases gut microbiota phylogenetic diversity and reduces levels of Collinsella in obese type 2 diabetics: A pilot study

• Fabian Frost,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1502-8888

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• Lena J. Storck,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Department of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

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• Tim Kacprowski,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

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• Simone Gärtner,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Malte Rühlemann,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-0052

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• Corinna Bang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Andre Franke,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-5811

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• Uwe Völker,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Ali A. Aghdassi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Antje Steveling,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Julia Mayerle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Department of Medicine II, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Frank U. Weiss,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Georg Homuth,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Markus M. Lerch

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lerch@uni-greifswald.de

  Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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