[HTML][HTML] Challenges in exploring and manipulating the human skin microbiome

M Boxberger, V Cenizo, N Cassir, B La Scola - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
The skin is the exterior interface of the human body with the environment. Despite its harsh
physical landscape, the skin is colonized by diverse commensal microbes. In this review, we …

The first microbial colonizers of the human gut: composition, activities, and health implications of the infant gut microbiota

C Milani, S Duranti, F Bottacini, E Casey… - Microbiology and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The human gut microbiota is engaged in multiple interactions affecting host health during
the host's entire life span. Microbes colonize the neonatal gut immediately following birth …

[HTML][HTML] Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting …

DW Waite, M Chuvochina, C Pelikan… - … of Systematic and …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
The class Deltaproteobacteria comprises an ecologically and metabolically diverse group of
bacteria best known for dissimilatory sulphate reduction and predatory behaviour. Although …

metaSPAdes: a new versatile metagenomic assembler

S Nurk, D Meleshko, A Korobeynikov… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
While metagenomics has emerged as a technology of choice for analyzing bacterial
populations, the assembly of metagenomic data remains challenging, thus stifling biological …

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

CT Brown, LA Hug, BC Thomas, I Sharon, CJ Castelle… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
A prominent feature of the bacterial domain is a radiation of major lineages that are defined
as candidate phyla because they lack isolated representatives. Bacteria from these phyla …

hybridSPAdes: an algorithm for hybrid assembly of short and long reads

D Antipov, A Korobeynikov, JS McLean… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Recent advances in single molecule real-time (SMRT) and nanopore
sequencing technologies have enabled high-quality assemblies from long and inaccurate …

The rebirth of culture in microbiology through the example of culturomics to study human gut microbiota

JC Lagier, P Hugon, S Khelaifia… - Clinical microbiology …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial culture was the first method used to describe the human microbiota, but this
method is considered outdated by many researchers. Metagenomics studies have since …

Current and past strategies for bacterial culture in clinical microbiology

JC Lagier, S Edouard, I Pagnier… - Clinical microbiology …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY A pure bacterial culture remains essential for the study of its virulence, its
antibiotic susceptibility, and its genome sequence in order to facilitate the understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)

DW Waite, I Vanwonterghem, C Rinke… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The Epsilonproteobacteria is the fifth validly described class of the phylum Proteobacteria,
known primarily for clinical relevance and for chemolithotrophy in various terrestrial and …

Metagenome-wide association studies: fine-mining the microbiome

J Wang, H Jia - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Metagenome-wide association studies (MWAS) have enabled the high-resolution
investigation of associations between the human microbiome and several complex …