Re‐assessing microbiomes in the low‐biomass reproductive niche

JL O'Callaghan, R Turner… - … Journal of Obstetrics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The female reproductive tract represents a continuum between the vagina and the upper
genital tract. New evidence from cultivation‐independent studies suggests that the female …

Best practice for wildlife gut microbiome research: A comprehensive review of methodology for 16S rRNA gene investigations

L Combrink, IR Humphreys, Q Washburn… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Extensive research in well-studied animal models underscores the importance of
commensal gastrointestinal (gut) microbes to animal physiology. Gut microbes have been …

Associations between gut microbiota, faecal short-chain fatty acids, and blood pressure across ethnic groups: the HELIUS study

BJH Verhaar, D Collard, A Prodan… - European heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims Preliminary evidence from animal and human studies shows that gut microbiota
composition and levels of microbiota-derived metabolites, including short-chain fatty acids …

Does the human placenta delivered at term have a microbiota? Results of cultivation, quantitative real-time PCR, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and metagenomics

KR Theis, R Romero, AD Winters, JM Greenberg… - American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The human placenta has been traditionally viewed as sterile, and microbial
invasion of this organ has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Yet, recent …

Contributions to human breast milk microbiome and enteromammary transfer of Bifidobacterium breve

K Kordy, T Gaufin, M Mwangi, F Li, C Cerini, DJ Lee… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Increasing evidence supports the importance of the breast milk microbiome in seeding the
infant gut. However, the origin of bacteria in milk and the process of milk microbe-mediated …

Shallow shotgun sequencing reduces technical variation in microbiome analysis

AJ La Reau, NB Strom, E Filvaroff, K Mavrommatis… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The microbiome is known to play a role in many human diseases, but identifying key
microbes and their functions generally requires large studies due to the vast number of …

Endophytic microbiome variation among single plant seeds

AF Bintarti, A Sulesky-Grieb, N Stopnisek… - Phytobiomes …, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
Like other plant compartments, the seed harbors a microbiome. The members of the seed
microbiome are the first to colonize a germinating seedling, and they may initiate the …

Comparison of concentration and extraction workflows for qPCR quantification of intI1 and vanA in untreated wastewater

Y Liu, W Smith, M Gebrewold, X Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) measurement of antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs) in untreated municipal wastewater may prove useful in combating the antimicrobial …

Microbiota: A key factor affecting and regulating the efficacy of immunotherapy

Y Jiang, D Jia, Y Sun, N Ding… - Clinical and Translational …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Immunotherapy has made significant progress in cancer treatment; however,
the responsiveness to immunotherapy varies widely among patients. Growing evidence has …

Establishing reference material for the quest towards standardization in environmental microbial metagenomic studies

Y Yang, Y Deng, L Liu, X Yin, X Xu, D Wang, T Zhang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Breakthroughs in DNA-based technologies, especially in metagenomic sequencing, have
drastically enhanced researchers' ability to explore environmental microbiome and the …