Defining and quantifying the core microbiome: challenges and prospects

AT Neu, EE Allen, K Roy - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The term “core microbiome” has become widely used in microbial ecology over the last
decade. Broadly, the core microbiome refers to any set of microbial taxa, or the genomic and …

Performance and application of 16S rRNA gene cycle sequencing for routine identification of bacteria in the clinical microbiology laboratory

DL Church, L Cerutti, A Gürtler, T Griener… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
This review provides a state-of-the-art description of the performance of Sanger cycle
sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene for routine identification of bacteria in the clinical …

Nutrient supply controls the linkage between species abundance and ecological interactions in marine bacterial communities

T Dai, D Wen, CT Bates, L Wu, X Guo, S Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nutrient scarcity is pervasive for natural microbial communities, affecting species
reproduction and co-existence. However, it remains unclear whether there are general rules …

Multiple energy sources and metabolic strategies sustain microbial diversity in Antarctic desert soils

M Ortiz, PM Leung, G Shelley… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Numerous diverse microorganisms reside in the cold desert soils of continental Antarctica,
though we lack a holistic understanding of the metabolic processes that sustain them. Here …

Identifying biases and their potential solutions in human microbiome studies

JT Nearing, AM Comeau, MGI Langille - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Advances in DNA sequencing technology have vastly improved the ability of researchers to
explore the microbial inhabitants of the human body. Unfortunately, while these studies have …

Insights from enzymatic degradation of cellulose and hemicellulose to fermentable sugars–a review

AA Houfani, N Anders, AC Spiess, P Baldrian… - Biomass and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lignocellulose, the most abundant and renewable resource on Earth is an important raw
material, which can be converted into high value products. However, to this end, it needs to …

The madness of microbiome: attempting to find consensus “best practice” for 16S microbiome studies

J Pollock, L Glendinning, T Wisedchanwet… - Applied and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The development and continuous improvement of high-throughput sequencing platforms
have stimulated interest in the study of complex microbial communities. Currently, the most …

Toward a universal unit for quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental samples

X Yin, X Chen, XT Jiang, Y Yang, B Li… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has been increasingly conducted in
environmental sectors to complement the surveys in human and animal sectors under the …

Forest soil bacteria: diversity, involvement in ecosystem processes, and response to global change

S Lladó, R López-Mondéjar… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ecology of forest soils is an important field of research due to the role of forests as
carbon sinks. Consequently, a significant amount of information has been accumulated …

Interpretations of environmental microbial community studies are biased by the selected 16S rRNA (gene) amplicon sequencing pipeline

D Straub, N Blackwell, A Langarica-Fuentes… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One of the major methods to identify microbial community composition, to unravel microbial
population dynamics, and to explore microbial diversity in environmental samples is high …