[HTML][HTML] Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods

J Pawlowski, K Bruce, K Panksep, FI Aguirre… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding (parallel sequencing of DNA/RNA for
identification of whole communities within a targeted group) is revolutionizing the field of …

Multi-level analysis of the gut–brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles

JT Morton, DM Jin, RH Mills, Y Shao, G Rahman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by
heterogeneous cognitive, behavioral and communication impairments. Disruption of the gut …

A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors

AB Dohlman, J Klug, M Mesko, IH Gao, SM Lipkin… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fungal microorganisms (mycobiota) comprise a small but immunoreactive component of the
human microbiome, yet little is known about their role in human cancers. Pan-cancer …

Exploring and exploiting the rice phytobiome to tackle climate change challenges

SMH Khatibi, NG Dimaano, E Veliz, V Sundaresan… - Plant …, 2024 - cell.com
The future of agriculture is uncertain under the current climate change scenario. Climate
change directly and indirectly affects the biotic and abiotic elements that control …

Waste not, want not: revisiting the analysis that called into question the practice of rarefaction

PD Schloss - Msphere, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT In 2014, McMurdie and Holmes published the provocatively titled “Waste not,
want not: why rarefying microbiome data is inadmissible.” The claims of their study have …

Rare prokaryotic sub-communities dominate the complexity of ecological networks and soil multinutrient cycling during long-term secondary succession in China's …

D Shu, Y Guo, B Zhang, C Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Unraveling the succession of microbial communities is a core ecological research topic. Yet
few studies have focused on how long-term secondary succession affects the functional …

Time after time: temporal variation in the effects of grass and forb species on soil bacterial and fungal communities

SE Hannula, AM Kielak, K Steinauer, M Huberty… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microorganisms are found everywhere and have critical roles in most ecosystems, but
compared to plants and animals, little is known about their temporal dynamics. Here, we …

Rarefaction is currently the best approach to control for uneven sequencing effort in amplicon sequence analyses

PD Schloss - Msphere, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Considering it is common to find as much as 100-fold variation in the number of 16S rRNA
gene sequences across samples in a study, researchers need to control for the effect of …

Primary nasal influenza infection rewires tissue-scale memory response dynamics

SW Kazer, CM Match, EM Langan, MA Messou… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
The nasal mucosa is often the initial site of respiratory viral infection, replication, and
transmission. Understanding how infection shapes tissue-scale primary and memory …

Chinese Liquor Fermentation: Identification of Key Flavor-Producing Lactobacillus spp. by Quantitative Profiling with Indigenous Internal Standards

R Du, Q Wu, Y Xu - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Identifying the functional microbes in spontaneous food fermentation is important for
improving food quality. To identify the key flavor producers in Chinese liquor fermentation …