Microbial functional genes involved in nitrogen fixation, nitrification and denitrification in forest ecosystems

DJ Levy-Booth, CE Prescott, SJ Grayston - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The understanding of nitrogen (N) cycling in forest ecosystems has undergone a major shift
in the past decade as molecular methods are being used to link microorganisms to key …

Colonic butyrate-producing communities in humans: an overview using omics data

M Vital, A Karch, DH Pieper - Msystems, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Given the key role of butyrate for host health, understanding the ecology of intestinal
butyrate-producing communities is a top priority for gut microbiota research. To this end, we …

Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2's q2-feature-classifier plugin

NA Bokulich, BD Kaehler, JR Rideout, M Dillon… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Taxonomic classification of marker-gene sequences is an important step in
microbiome analysis. Results We present q2-feature-classifier (https://github. com/qiime2/q2 …

FunGene: the functional gene pipeline and repository

JA Fish, B Chai, Q Wang, Y Sun, CT Brown… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Ribosomal RNA genes have become the standard molecular markers for microbial
community analysis for good reasons, including universal occurrence in cellular organisms …

Uncovering the trimethylamine-producing bacteria of the human gut microbiota

S Rath, B Heidrich, DH Pieper, M Vital - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background Trimethylamine (TMA), produced by the gut microbiota from dietary quaternary
amines (mainly choline and carnitine), is associated with atherosclerosis and severe …

Soil pH correlates with the co-occurrence and assemblage process of diazotrophic communities in rhizosphere and bulk soils of wheat fields

K Fan, P Weisenhorn, JA Gilbert, Y Shi, Y Bai… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biological nitrogen fixation contributes to the pool of plant-available N in both bulk soil and
the rhizosphere. Here we investigated the co-association and assemblage process of …

Alkaline phosphatase activity mediates soil organic phosphorus mineralization in a subalpine forest ecosystem

J Li, T **e, H Zhu, J Zhou, C Li, W **ong, L Xu, Y Wu… - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
Microorganisms play a crucial role in soil organic P mineralization. However, how microbial
and environmental traits mediate this process in subalpine forests remains largely unknown …

Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes

RJE Alves, BQ Minh, T Urich, A von Haeseler… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) are ubiquitous and abundant in nature and play a major
role in nitrogen cycling. AOA have been studied intensively based on the amoA gene …

Suppressed N fixation and diazotrophs after four decades of fertilization

K Fan, M Delgado-Baquerizo, X Guo, D Wang, Y Wu… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background N fixation is one of the most important microbially driven ecosystem processes
on Earth, allowing N to enter the soil from the atmosphere, and regulating plant productivity …

Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

K Xue, M M. Yuan, Z J. Shi, Y Qin, YE Deng… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Microbial decomposition of soil carbon in high-latitude tundra underlain with permafrost is
one of the most important, but poorly understood, potential positive feedbacks of …