Reintroducing mothur: 10 years later

PD Schloss - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
More than 10 years ago, we published the paper describing the mothur software package in
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Our goal was to create a comprehensive package …

[HTML][HTML] Mining microbes for mental health: determining the role of microbial metabolic pathways in human brain health and disease

S Spichak, TFS Bastiaanssen, K Berding… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is increasing knowledge regarding the role of the microbiome in modulating brain and
behaviour. Indeed, the actions of microbial metabolites are key for appropriate gut-brain …

Parallelization of MAFFT for large-scale multiple sequence alignments

T Nakamura, KD Yamada, K Tomii, K Katoh - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We report an update for the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program to enable parallel
calculation of large numbers of sequences. The G-INS-1 option of MAFFT was recently …

[HTML][HTML] MiDAS 3: an ecosystem-specific reference database, taxonomy and knowledge platform for activated sludge and anaerobic digesters reveals species-level …

M Nierychlo, KS Andersen, Y Xu, N Green, C Jiang… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The function of the microbiomes in wastewater treatment systems and anaerobic digesters is
dictated by the physiological activity of their members and complex interactions between …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of detection of a human placenta microbiome in samples from preterm and term deliveries

JS Leiby, K McCormick, S Sherrill-Mix, EL Clarke… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Historically, the human womb has been thought to be sterile in healthy
pregnancies, but this idea has been challenged by recent studies using DNA sequence …

[HTML][HTML] Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling

JE Schmidt, AD Kent, VL Brisson, ACM Gaudin - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background Rhizosphere microbial communities are key regulators of plant performance,
yet few studies have assessed the impact of different management approaches on the …

[HTML][HTML] A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity

S Louca, F Mazel, M Doebeli, LW Parfrey - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The global diversity of Bacteria and Archaea, the most ancient and most widespread forms
of life on Earth, is a subject of intense controversy. This controversy stems largely from the …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the ecology, evolution, and metabolism of the widespread Woesearchaeotal lineages

X Liu, M Li, CJ Castelle, AJ Probst, Z Zhou, J Pan, Y Liu… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background As a recently discovered member of the DPANN superphylum,
Woesearchaeota account for a wide diversity of 16S rRNA gene sequences, but their …

Redox-active antibiotics enhance phosphorus bioavailability

DL McRose, DK Newman - Science, 2021 - science.org
Microbial production of antibiotics is common, but our understanding of their roles in the
environment is limited. In this study, we explore long-standing observations that microbes …

[HTML][HTML] Relaxed targeting rules help PIWI proteins silence transposons

I Gainetdinov, J Vega-Badillo, K Cecchini, A Bagci… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, small RNA guides, such as small interfering RNAs and microRNAs, direct
AGO-clade Argonaute proteins to regulate gene expression and defend the genome against …