Microplastics as an emerging source of particulate air pollution: A critical review

S Sridharan, M Kumar, L Singh, NS Bolan… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accumulation of plastic litter exerts pressure on the environment. Microplastics (MPs)
pollution has become a universal challenge due to the overexploitation of plastic products …

Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

M Bahram, T Netherway - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

[HTML][HTML] Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring

C Lynggaard, MF Bertelsen, CV Jensen, MS Johnson… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Biodiversity monitoring at the community scale is a critical element of assessing and
studying species distributions, ecology, diversity, and movements, and it is key to …

Integrative microbiomics in bronchiectasis exacerbations

M Mac Aogain, JK Narayana, PY Tiew, NABM Ali… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Bronchiectasis, a progressive chronic airway disease, is characterized by microbial
colonization and infection. We present an approach to the multi-biome that integrates …

Microbial ecology of the atmosphere

T Šantl-Temkiv, P Amato, EO Casamayor… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The atmosphere connects habitats across multiple spatial scales via airborne dispersal of
microbial cells, propagules and biomolecules. Atmospheric microorganisms have been …

The mycobiome in health and disease: emerging concepts, methodologies and challenges

PY Tiew, M Mac Aogain, NABM Ali, KX Thng, K Goh… - Mycopathologia, 2020 - Springer
Fungal disease is an increasingly recognised global clinical challenge associated with high
mortality. Early diagnosis of fungal infection remains problematic due to the poor sensitivity …

[HTML][HTML] Neisseria species as pathobionts in bronchiectasis

L Li, M Mac Aogain, T Xu, TK Jaggi, LLY Chan, J Qu… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Neisseria species are frequently identified in the bronchiectasis microbiome, but they are
regarded as respiratory commensals. Using a combination of human cohorts, next …

Metagenomics: An effective approach for exploring microbial diversity and functions

NN Nam, HDK Do, KT Loan Trinh, NY Lee - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Various fields have been identified in the “omics” era, such as genomics, proteomics,
transcriptomics, metabolomics, phenomics, and metagenomics. Among these …

Towards exhaustive community ecology via DNA metabarcoding

GF Ficetola, P Taberlet - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exhaustive biodiversity data, covering all the taxa in an environment, would be fundamental
to understand how global changes influence organisms living at different trophic levels, and …

Infection and the microbiome in bronchiectasis

M Mac Aogáin, AJ Dicker, P Mertsch… - European …, 2024 - publications.ersnet.org
Bronchiectasis is marked by bronchial dilatation, recurrent infections and significant
morbidity, underpinned by a complex interplay between microbial dysbiosis and immune …