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 …

Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2017 - journals.asm.org
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness

A Argaw-Denboba, TSB Schmidt, M Di Giacomo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The gut microbiota operates at the interface of host–environment interactions to influence
human homoeostasis and metabolic networks,,–. Environmental factors that unbalance gut …

Metagenomics of Parkinson's disease implicates the gut microbiome in multiple disease mechanisms

ZD Wallen, A Demirkan, G Twa, G Cohen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) may start in the gut and spread to the brain. To investigate the role
of gut microbiome, we conducted a large-scale study, at high taxonomic resolution, using …

Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations

CX Yap, AK Henders, GA Alvares, DLA Wood… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
There is increasing interest in the potential contribution of the gut microbiome to autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). However, previous studies have been underpowered and have …

Metallic micronutrients are associated with the structure and function of the soil microbiome

Z Dai, X Guo, J Lin, X Wang, D He, R Zeng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The relationship between metallic micronutrients and soil microorganisms, and thereby soil
functioning, has been little explored. Here, we investigate the relationship between metallic …

The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity

MC Rillig, M Ryo, A Lehmann, CA Aguilar-Trigueros… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Soils underpin terrestrial ecosystem functions, but they face numerous anthropogenic
pressures. Despite their crucial ecological role, we know little about how soils react to more …

The power of microbiome studies: some considerations on which alpha and beta metrics to use and how to report results

JG Kers, E Saccenti - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Since sequencing techniques have become less expensive, larger sample
sizes are applicable for microbiota studies. The aim of this study is to show how, and to what …

[HTML][HTML] Translocation of viable gut microbiota to mesenteric adipose drives formation of cree** fat in humans

CWY Ha, A Martin, GD Sepich-Poore, B Shi, Y Wang… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
A mysterious feature of Crohn's disease (CD) is the extra-intestinal manifestation of"
cree** fat"(CrF), defined as expansion of mesenteric adipose tissue around the inflamed …

Laboratory mice born to wild mice have natural microbiota and model human immune responses

SP Rosshart, J Herz, BG Vassallo, A Hunter, MK Wall… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Laboratory mice are a mainstay of biomedical research and have been
instrumental for many important discoveries in the field of immunology. However, there are …