Fungi are increasingly being recognized as common members of the microbiomes found on
nearly all mucosal surfaces, and interest is growing in understanding how these organisms …

The human body is home to a complex and diverse microbial ecosystem that plays a central
role in host health. This includes a diversity of fungal species that is collectively referred to …

Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for …

Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies
challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities …

Growing up on a farm is associated with an asthma-protective effect, but the mechanisms
underlying this effect are largely unknown. In the Protection against Allergy: Study in Rural …

Background Taxonomic classification of marker-gene sequences is an important step in
microbiome analysis. Results We present q2-feature-classifier (https://github. com/qiime2/q2 …

Cropping systems have fertilized soils for decades with undetermined consequences for the
productivity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. One of the critical unknowns is the role …

Metabarcoding has been used in a range of ecological applications such as taxonomic
assignment, dietary analysis and the analysis of environmental DNA. However, after a …

Chronic liver disease with cirrhosis is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States,
and alcoholic liver disease accounts for approximately half of all cirrhosis deaths. Chronic …

While high-throughput sequencing methods are revolutionizing fungal ecology, recovering
accurate estimates of species richness and abundance has proven elusive. We sought to …