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J. Gregory Caporaso
Microbiology
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Open AccessOligofructose improves small intestinal lipid-sensing mechanisms via alterations to the small intestinal microbiota
Upper small intestinal dietary lipids activate a gut-brain axis regulating energy homeostasis. The prebiotic, oligofructose (OFS) improves body weight and adiposity during metabolic dysregulation but the exact...
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Open AccessLeptospira in river and soil in a highly endemic area of Ecuador
Leptospira are shed into the environment via urine of infected animals. Rivers are thought to be an important risk factor for transmission to humans, though much is unknown about the types of environment or chara...
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Open AccessNext steps in studying the human microbiome and health in prospective studies, Bethesda, MD, May 16–17, 2017
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored a 2-day workshop, “Next Steps in Studying the Human Microbiome and Health in Prospective Studies,” in Bethesda, Maryland, May 16–17, 2017. The workshop brought tog...
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Open AccessCurrent progress and future opportunities in applications of bioinformatics for biodefense and pathogen detection: report from the Winter Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up, College Park, MD, January 10, 2018
The Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up (M3) organization brings together academic, government, and industry groups to share ideas and develop best practices for microbiome research. In January of 2018, M3 held its f...
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Best practices for analysing microbiomes
Complex microbial communities shape the dynamics of various environments, ranging from the mammalian gastrointestinal tract to the soil. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies and data analysis have provided ...
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Open AccessOptimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin
Taxonomic classification of marker-gene sequences is an important step in microbiome analysis.
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Open AccessMicrobiota Transfer Therapy alters gut ecosystem and improves gastrointestinal and autism symptoms: an open-label study
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are complex neurobiological disorders that impair social interactions and communication and lead to restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and ...
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Open Accessghost-tree: creating hybrid-gene phylogenetic trees for diversity analyses
Fungi play critical roles in many ecosystems, cause serious diseases in plants and animals, and pose significant threats to human health and structural integrity problems in built environments. While most fung...
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Using QIIME to Evaluate the Microbial Communities Within Hydrocarbon Environments
Interest in the microbiology of hydrocarbon-rich environments has increased rapidly in recent years, with applications ranging from oil spill cleanup to reservoir management. Modern techniques for reading out ...
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Open AccessErratum to: Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity
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Open AccessStability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity
The operational taxonomic unit (OTU) is widely used in microbial ecology. Reproducibility in microbial ecology research depends on the reliability of OTU-based 16S ribosomal subunit RNA (rRNA) analyses.
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Error Minimization and Coding Triplet/Binding Site Associations Are Independent Features of the Canonical Genetic Code
The canonical genetic code has been reported both to be error minimizing and to show stereochemical associations between coding triplets and binding sites. In order to test whether these two properties are une...
