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 …

Cross-biome comparison of microbial association networks

K Faust, G Lima-Mendez, JS Lerat… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Clinical and environmental meta-omics studies are accumulating an ever-growing amount of
microbial abundance data over a wide range of ecosystems. With a sufficiently large sample …

Disease outbreak accompanies the dispersive structure of shrimp gut bacterial community with a simple core microbiota

Z Yao, K Yang, L Huang, X Huang, L Qiuqian, K Wang… - AMB Express, 2018 - Springer
Increasing evidence has emerged supporting a tight link between gut bacterial community
and shrimp health. However, the knowledge about the variation of gut bacterial community …

Analysis of microbial functions in the rhizosphere using a metabolic-network based framework for metagenomics interpretation

S Ofaim, M Ofek-Lalzar, N Sela, J Jinag… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Advances in metagenomics enable high resolution description of complex bacterial
communities in their natural environments. Consequently, conceptual approaches for …

Disentangling environmental effects in microbial association networks

IM Deutschmann, G Lima-Mendez, AK Krabberød… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Ecological interactions among microorganisms are fundamental for ecosystem
function, yet they are mostly unknown or poorly understood. High-throughput-omics can …

Fire modifies the phylogenetic structure of soil bacterial co‐occurrence networks

E Pérez‐Valera, M Goberna, K Faust… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fire alters ecosystems by changing the composition and community structure of soil
microbes. The phylogenetic structure of a community provides clues about its main …

Community-level signatures of ecological succession in natural bacterial communities

A Pascual-García, T Bell - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
A central goal in microbial ecology is to simplify the extraordinary biodiversity that inhabits
natural environments into ecologically coherent units. We profiled (16S rRNA sequencing)> …

Inference of environmental factor-microbe and microbe-microbe associations from metagenomic data using a hierarchical Bayesian statistical model

Y Yang, N Chen, T Chen - Cell systems, 2017 - cell.com
The inference of associations between environmental factors and microbes and among
microbes is critical to interpreting metagenomic data, but compositional bias, indirect …

Karst spring microbiome: diversity, core taxa, and community response to pathogens and antibiotic resistance gene contamination

E Szekeres, A Baricz, A Cristea, EA Levei… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Karst aquifers are important water resources for drinking water supplies worldwide. Although
they are susceptible to anthropogenic contamination due to their high permeability, there is …

Relationships between community composition, productivity and invasion resistance in semi-natural bacterial microcosms

ML Jones, DW Rivett, A Pascual-García, T Bell - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Common garden experiments that inoculate a standardised growth medium with synthetic
microbial communities (ie constructed from individual isolates or using dilution cultures) …