From hairballs to hypotheses–biological insights from microbial networks

L Röttjers, K Faust - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Microbial networks are an increasingly popular tool to investigate microbial community
structure, as they integrate multiple types of information and may represent systems-level …

Disentangling interactions in the microbiome: a network perspective

M Layeghifard, DM Hwang, DS Guttman - Trends in microbiology, 2017 - cell.com
Microbiota are now widely recognized as being central players in the health of all organisms
and ecosystems, and subsequently have been the subject of intense study. However …

Co-occurrence networks reveal more complexity than community composition in resistance and resilience of microbial communities

C Gao, L Xu, L Montoya, M Madera… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Plant response to drought stress involves fungi and bacteria that live on and in plants and in
the rhizosphere, yet the stability of these myco-and micro-biomes remains poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Abundance of kinless hubs within soil microbial networks are associated with high functional potential in agricultural ecosystems

Y Shi, M Delgado-Baquerizo, Y Li, Y Yang… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial taxa within complex ecological networks can be classified by their universal roles
based on their level of connectivity with other taxa. Highly connected taxa within an …

[HTML][HTML] Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology

M Goberna, M Verdú - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil ecology is witnessing exponential growth in the number of studies using co-occurrence
network analysis. Researchers reconstruct networks based on the co-occurrence of taxa or …

The ecology and evolution of microbial competition

M Ghoul, S Mitri - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Microbes are typically surrounded by different strains and species with whom they compete
for scarce nutrients and limited space. Given such challenging living conditions, microbes …

[HTML][HTML] CoNet app: inference of biological association networks using Cytoscape

K Faust, J Raes - F1000Research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Here we present the Cytoscape app version of our association network inference tool
CoNet. Though CoNet was developed with microbial community data from sequencing …

Correlation and association analyses in microbiome study integrating multiomics in health and disease

Y Xia - Progress in molecular biology and translational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Correlation and association analyses are one of the most widely used statistical methods in
research fields, including microbiome and integrative multiomics studies. Correlation and …

Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

T Cordier, L Alonso‐Sáez… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

Land-use intensification differentially affects bacterial, fungal and protist communities and decreases microbiome network complexity

S Romdhane, A Spor, S Banerjee, MC Breuil… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Background Soil microbial communities are major drivers of cycling of soil nutrients that
sustain plant growth and productivity. Yet, a holistic understanding of the impact of land-use …