Lactobacillus iners: friend or foe?

MI Petrova, G Reid, M Vaneechoutte, S Lebeer - Trends in microbiology, 2017 - cell.com
The vaginal microbial community is typically characterized by abundant lactobacilli.
Lactobacillus iners, a fairly recently detected species, is frequently present in the vaginal …

Bacteria–phage coevolution as a driver of ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial communities

B Koskella, MA Brockhurst - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria–phage coevolution, the reciprocal evolution between bacterial hosts and the
phages that infect them, is an important driver of ecological and evolutionary processes in …

The integrative human microbiome project

HMP Integrative, LM Proctor, HH Creasy… - …, 2019 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Abstract The NIH Human Microbiome Project (HMP) has been carried out over ten years and
two phases to provide resources, methods, and discoveries that link interactions between …

Ecogenomics and potential biogeochemical impacts of globally abundant ocean viruses

S Roux, JR Brum, BE Dutilh, S Sunagawa… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Ocean microbes drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale. However, this cycling is
constrained by viruses that affect community composition, metabolic activity, and …

Engineered CRISPR-Cas systems for the detection and control of antibiotic-resistant infections

Y Wu, D Battalapalli, MJ Hakeem, V Selamneni… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Antibiotic resistance is spreading rapidly around the world and seriously impeding efforts to
control microbial infections. Although nucleic acid testing is widely deployed for the …

RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9

P Mali, L Yang, KM Esvelt, J Aach, M Guell, JE DiCarlo… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Bacteria and archaea have evolved adaptive immune defenses, termed clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems, that …

CRISPRDetect: a flexible algorithm to define CRISPR arrays

A Biswas, RHJ Staals, SE Morales, PC Fineran… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) RNAs
provide the specificity for noncoding RNA-guided adaptive immune defence systems in …

CRISPR-mediated adaptive immune systems in bacteria and archaea

R Sorek, CM Lawrence… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Effective clearance of an infection requires that the immune system rapidly detects and
neutralizes invading parasites while strictly avoiding self-antigens that would result in …

The Human Microbiome Project: a community resource for the healthy human microbiome

D Gevers, R Knight, JF Petrosino, K Huang… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The Human Microbiome Project: A Community Resource for the Healthy Human Microbiome |
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Patterns and ecological drivers of viral communities in acid mine drainage sediments across Southern China

S Gao, D Paez-Espino, J Li, H Ai, J Liang, Z Luo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advances in environmental genomics have provided unprecedented opportunities
for the investigation of viruses in natural settings. Yet, our knowledge of viral biogeographic …