Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation

JA Fuhrman, JA Cram, DM Needham - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in studying the dynamics of marine microbial communities have shown
that the composition of these communities follows predictable patterns and involves complex …

Microbial assembly, interaction, functioning, activity and diversification: a review derived from community compositional data

J Liu, Z Meng, X Liu, XH Zhang - Marine Life Science & Technology, 2019 - Springer
Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades
have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using …

Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples

AE Parada, DM Needham… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial community analysis via high‐throughput sequencing of amplified 16S rRNA genes
is an essential microbiology tool. We found the popular primer pair 515F (515F‐C) and …

Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision

S Weiss, W Van Treuren, C Lozupone, K Faust… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Disruption of healthy microbial communities has been linked to numerous diseases, yet
microbial interactions are little understood. This is due in part to the large number of …

Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome

G Lima-Mendez, K Faust, N Henry, J Decelle, S Colin… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Species interaction networks are shaped by abiotic and biotic factors. Here, as part of the
Tara Oceans project, we studied the photic zone interactome using environmental factors …

Bacterial communities in oil contaminated soils: biogeography and co-occurrence patterns

S Jiao, Z Liu, Y Lin, J Yang, W Chen, G Wei - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
To improve the knowledge about the biogeographic patterns of bacteria in soils
contaminated with crude oil, we studied the effects of local geochemical properties and …

Taxonomic relatedness shapes bacterial assembly in activated sludge of globally distributed wastewater treatment plants

F Ju, Y Xia, F Guo, Z Wang… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Activated sludge (AS), which has been in use for 100 years, has been the most popular
biological process in various wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), in which bacteria plays …

A modular organization of the human intestinal mucosal microbiota and its association with inflammatory bowel disease

M Tong, X Li, L Wegener Parfrey, B Roth, A Ippoliti… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Abnormalities of the intestinal microbiota are implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's
disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), two spectra of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) …

Planktonic marine archaea

AE Santoro, RA Richter… - Annual review of marine …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Archaea are ubiquitous and abundant members of the marine plankton. Once thought of as
rare organisms found in exotic extremes of temperature, pressure, or salinity, archaea are …

Using “omics” and integrated multi-omics approaches to guide probiotic selection to mitigate chytridiomycosis and other emerging infectious diseases

EA Rebollar, RE Antwis, MH Becker… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Emerging infectious diseases in wildlife are responsible for massive population declines. In
amphibians, chytridiomycosis caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Bd, has severely …