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    Common antibiotics, azithromycin and amoxicillin, affect gut metagenomics within a household

    The microbiome of the human gut serves a role in a number of physiological processes, but can be altered through effects of age, diet, and disturbances such as antibiotics. Several studies have demonstrated th...

    Jessica Chopyk, Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes, Claudia Ramirez-Sanchez in BMC Microbiology (2023)

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    Distribution of soil viruses across China and their potential role in phosphorous metabolism

    Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on the planet and drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale. Our understanding of biogeography of soil viruses and their ecological functions lags signifi...

    Li-Li Han, Dan-Ting Yu, Li Bi, Shuai Du, Cynthia Silveira in Environmental Microbiome (2022)

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    A diversity-generating retroelement encoded by a globally ubiquitous Bacteroides phage

    Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are genetic cassettes that selectively mutate target genes to produce hypervariable proteins. First characterized in Bordetella bacteriophage BPP-1, the DGR creates a hyp...

    Sean Benler, Ana Georgina Cobián-Güemes, Katelyn McNair, Shr-Hau Hung in Microbiome (2018)