21 Result(s)

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Substantial viral diversity in bats and rodents from East Africa: insights into evolution, recombination, and cocirculation

Zoonotic viruses cause substantial public health and socioeconomic problems worldwide. Understanding how viruses evolve and spread within and among wildlife species is a critical step when aiming for proactive...

Daxi Wang, **nglou Yang, Zirui Ren, Ben Hu, Hailong Zhao, Kaixin Yang… in Microbiome (2024)

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Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines

Climate change threatens Earth’s ice-based ecosystems which currently offer archives and eco-evolutionary experiments in the extreme. Arctic cryopeg brine (marine-derived, within permafrost) and sea ice brine,...

Zhi-** Zhong, Dean Vik, Josephine Z. Rapp, Olivier Zablocki… in Microbiome (2023)

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A synbiotic mixture of selected oligosaccharides and bifidobacteria assists murine gut microbiota restoration following antibiotic challenge

Typically, animal models studying gastrointestinal microbiotas compromised in early life have employed either germ-free animals or mice treated with a cocktail of antibiotics. Such studies intend to mimic scen...

Emily C. Hoedt, Cara M. Hueston, Nora Cash, Roger S. Bongers… in Microbiome (2023)

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Synthase-selected sorting approach identifies a beta-lactone synthase in a nudibranch symbiotic bacterium

Nudibranchs comprise a group of > 6000 marine soft-bodied mollusk species known to use secondary metabolites (natural products) for chemical defense. The full diversity of these metabolites and whether symbiot...

Mária Džunková, James J. La Clair, Tomáš Tyml, Devin Doud, Frederik Schulz… in Microbiome (2023)

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MetaPop: a pipeline for macro- and microdiversity analyses and visualization of microbial and viral metagenome-derived populations

Microbes and their viruses are hidden engines driving Earth’s ecosystems from the oceans and soils to humans and bioreactors. Though gene marker approaches can now be complemented by genome-resolved studies of...

Ann C. Gregory, Kenji Gerhardt, Zhi-** Zhong, Benjamin Bolduc… in Microbiome (2022)

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Successional dynamics and alternative stable states in a saline activated sludge microbial community over 9 years

Microbial communities in both natural and applied settings reliably carry out myriads of functions, yet how stable these taxonomically diverse assemblages can be and what causes them to transition between stat...

Yulin Wang, Jun Ye, Feng Ju, Lei Liu, Joel A. Boyd, Yu Deng, Donovan H. Parks… in Microbiome (2021)

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Genetic Mutation of SARS-CoV-2 during Consecutive Passages in Permissive Cells

Ying Chen, Mei-Qin Liu, Yun Luo, Ren-Di Jiang, Hao-Rui Si, Yan Zhu… in Virologica Sinica (2021)

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Ultra-accurate microbial amplicon sequencing with synthetic long reads

Out of the many pathogenic bacterial species that are known, only a fraction are readily identifiable directly from a complex microbial community using standard next generation DNA sequencing. Long-read sequen...

Benjamin J. Callahan, Dmitry Grinevich, Siddhartha Thakur… in Microbiome (2021)

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Cross-kingdom inhibition of bacterial virulence and communication by probiotic yeast metabolites

Probiotic milk-fermented microorganism mixtures (e.g., yogurt, kefir) are perceived as contributing to human health, and possibly capable of protecting against bacterial infections. Co-existence of probiotic m...

Orit Malka, Dorin Kalson, Karin Yaniv, Reut Shafir, Manikandan Rajendran… in Microbiome (2021)

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VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses

Viruses are a significant player in many biosphere and human ecosystems, but most signals remain “hidden” in metagenomic/metatranscriptomic sequence datasets due to the lack of universal gene markers, database...

Jiarong Guo, Ben Bolduc, Ahmed A. Zayed, Arvind Varsani… in Microbiome (2021)

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Toothbrush microbiomes feature a meeting ground for human oral and environmental microbiota

While indoor microbiomes impact our health and well-being, much remains unknown about taxonomic and functional transitions that occur in human-derived microbial communities once they are transferred away from ...

Ryan A. Blaustein, Lisa-Marie Michelitsch, Adam J. Glawe, Hansung Lee… in Microbiome (2021)

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Characterization of TMAO productivity from carnitine challenge facilitates personalized nutrition and microbiome signatures discovery

The capability of gut microbiota in degrading foods and drugs administered orally can result in diversified efficacies and toxicity interpersonally and cause significant impact on human health. Production of a...

Wei-Kai Wu, Suraphan Panyod, Po-Yu Liu, Chieh-Chang Chen, Hsien-Li Kao… in Microbiome (2020)

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Correction to: Genetic Evidence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-Cov) and Widespread Seroprevalence among Camels in Kenya

The acknowledgement section in the original article was published incorrectly.

Sheila Ommeh, Wei Zhang, Ali Zohaib, **g Chen, Huajun Zhang, Ben Hu… in Virologica Sinica (2019)

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Genetic Evidence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-Cov) and Widespread Seroprevalence among Camels in Kenya

We describe the first genome isolation of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Kenya. This fatal zoonotic pathogen was first described in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012. Epidemiologi...

Sheila Ommeh, Wei Zhang, Ali Zohaib, **g Chen, Huajun Zhang, Ben Hu… in Virologica Sinica (2018)

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Correction to: Molecular detection of viruses in Kenyan bats and discovery of novel astroviruses, caliciviruses and rotaviruses

The affiliation listed for Cecilia Waruhiu is incorrect. The byline and affiliation line should appear as shown above.

Cecilia Waruhiu, Sheila Ommeh, Vincent Obanda, Bernard Agwanda… in Virologica Sinica (2018)

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Setting the pace: host rhythmic behaviour and gene expression patterns in the facultatively symbiotic cnidarian Aiptasia are determined largely by Symbiodinium

All organisms employ biological clocks to anticipate physical changes in the environment; however, the integration of biological clocks in symbiotic systems has received limited attention. In corals, the inter...

Michal Sorek, Yisrael Schnytzer, Hiba Waldman Ben-Asher, Vered Chalifa Caspi… in Microbiome (2018)

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Longitudinal Surveillance of Betacoronaviruses in Fruit Bats in Yunnan Province, China During 2009–2016

Previous studies indicated that fruit bats carry two betacoronaviruses, BatCoV HKU9 and BatCoV GCCDC1. To investigate the epidemiology and genetic diversity of these coronaviruses, we conducted a longitudinal ...

Yun Luo, Bei Li, Ren-Di Jiang, Bing-Jie Hu, Dong-Sheng Luo… in Virologica Sinica (2018)

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Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels

Our understanding of gut microbiota has been limited primarily to findings from human and laboratory animals, but what shapes the gut microbiota in nature remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we conducte...

Tiantian Ren, Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries, Ben Dantzer… in Microbiome (2017)

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Molecular detection of viruses in Kenyan bats and discovery of novel astroviruses, caliciviruses and rotaviruses

This is the first country-wide surveillance of bat-borne viruses in Kenya spanning from 2012–2015 covering sites perceived to have medium to high level bat-human interaction. The objective of this surveillance...

Cecilia Waruhiu, Sheila Ommeh, Vincent Obanda, Bernard Agwanda… in Virologica Sinica (2017)

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Longitudinal surveillance of SARS-like coronaviruses in bats by quantitative real-time PCR

Mei-Niang Wang, Wei Zhang, Yu-Tao Gao, Ben Hu, **ng-Yi Ge… in Virologica Sinica (2016)