Disease suppressive soils: new insights from the soil microbiome

D Schlatter, L Kinkel, L Thomashow, D Weller… - …, 2017 - Am Phytopath Society
Soils suppressive to soilborne pathogens have been identified worldwide for almost 60
years and attributed mainly to suppressive or antagonistic microorganisms. Rather than …

Reintroducing mothur: 10 years later

PD Schloss - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
More than 10 years ago, we published the paper describing the mothur software package in
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Our goal was to create a comprehensive package …

Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

The ecology of the plastisphere: microbial composition, function, assembly, and network in the freshwater and seawater ecosystems

C Li, L Wang, S Ji, M Chang, L Wang, Y Gan, J Liu - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics provide a unique habitat for microorganisms, forming the plastisphere. Yet the
ecology of the plastisphere, including the microbial composition, functions, assembly …

From People to Panthera: Natural SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Tigers and Lions at the Bronx Zoo

D McAloose, M Laverack, L Wang, ML Killian… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite numerous barriers to transmission, zoonoses are the major cause of emerging
infectious diseases in humans. Among these, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

Long-term benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota

DW Kang, JB Adams, DM Coleman, EL Pollard… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Many studies have reported abnormal gut microbiota in individuals with Autism Spectrum
Disorders (ASD), suggesting a link between gut microbiome and autism-like behaviors …

Deblur rapidly resolves single-nucleotide community sequence patterns

A Amir, D McDonald, JA Navas-Molina, E Kopylova… - …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
High-throughput sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicons has facilitated
understanding of complex microbial communities, but the inherent noise in PCR and DNA …

Two distinct gut microbial pathways contribute to meta-organismal production of phenylacetylglutamine with links to cardiovascular disease

Y Zhu, M Dwidar, I Nemet, JA Buffa, N Sangwan… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Recent studies show gut microbiota-dependent metabolism of dietary phenylalanine into
phenylacetic acid (PAA) is critical in phenylacetylglutamine (PAGln) production, a metabolite …

Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems

D Singer, CVW Seppey, G Lentendu, M Dunthorn… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Protists dominate eukaryotic diversity and play key functional roles in all ecosystems,
particularly by catalyzing carbon and nutrient cycling. To date, however, a comparative …

Microbiome helper: a custom and streamlined workflow for microbiome research

AM Comeau, GM Douglas, MGI Langille - MSystems, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sequence-based approaches to study microbiomes, such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing
and metagenomics, are uncovering associations between microbial taxa and a myriad of …