Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Phylum Gemmatimonadota and its role in the environment

I Mujakić, K Piwosz, M Koblížek - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacteria are an important part of every ecosystem that they inhabit on Earth. Environmental
microbiologists usually focus on a few dominant bacterial groups, neglecting less abundant …

Tree Visualization By One Table (tvBOT): a web application for visualizing, modifying and annotating phylogenetic trees

J **e, Y Chen, G Cai, R Cai, Z Hu… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract tvBOT is a user-friendly and efficient web application for visualizing, modifying, and
annotating phylogenetic trees. It is highly efficient in data preparation without requiring …

Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool

I Letunic, P Bork - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Interactive Tree Of Life (https://itol. embl. de) is an online tool for the
management, display, annotation and manipulation of phylogenetic and other trees. It is …

Convergent selection of a WD40 protein that enhances grain yield in maize and rice

W Chen, L Chen, X Zhang, N Yang, J Guo, M Wang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
A better understanding of the extent of convergent selection among crops could greatly
improve breeding programs. We found that the quantitative trait locus KRN2 in maize and its …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies target the coronavirus fusion peptide

C Dacon, C Tucker, L Peng, CCD Lee, TH Lin, M Yuan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The potential for future coronavirus outbreaks highlights the need to broadly target this
group of pathogens. We used an epitope-agnostic approach to identify six monoclonal …

Gut microbiome composition may be an indicator of preclinical Alzheimer's disease

AL Ferreiro, JH Choi, J Ryou, EP Newcomer… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is thought to progress from normal cognition through
preclinical disease and ultimately to symptomatic AD with cognitive impairment. Recent work …

Sourcing thermotolerant poly (ethylene terephthalate) hydrolase scaffolds from natural diversity

E Erickson, JE Gado, L Avilán, F Bratti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enzymatic deconstruction of poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) is under intense
investigation, given the ability of hydrolase enzymes to depolymerize PET to its constituent …

Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking

F Spragge, E Bakkeren, MT Jahn, E BN Araujo… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The human gut microbiome plays an important role in resisting colonization of the host by
pathogens, but we lack the ability to predict which communities will be protective. We …

A super pan-genomic landscape of rice

L Shang, X Li, H He, Q Yuan, Y Song, Z Wei, H Lin… - Cell Research, 2022 - nature.com
Pan-genomes from large natural populations can capture genetic diversity and reveal
genomic complexity. Using de novo long-read assembly, we generated a graph-based …