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    Low-abundance populations distinguish microbiome performance in plant cell wall deconstruction

    Plant cell walls are interwoven structures recalcitrant to degradation. Native and adapted microbiomes can be particularly effective at plant cell wall deconstruction. Although most understanding of biological...

    Lauren M. Tom, Martina Aulitto, Yu-Wei Wu, Kai Deng, Yu Gao, Naijia **ao in Microbiome (2022)

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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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    Metagenomic, phylogenetic, and functional characterization of predominant endolithic green sulfur bacteria in the coral Isopora palifera

    Endolithic microbes in coral skeletons are known to be a nutrient source for the coral host. In addition to aerobic endolithic algae and Cyanobacteria, which are usually described in the various corals and form a...

    Shan-Hua Yang, Kshitij Tandon, Chih-Ying Lu, Naohisa Wada, Chao-Jen Shih in Microbiome (2019)

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    Development and characterization of stable anaerobic thermophilic methanogenic microbiomes fermenting switchgrass at decreasing residence times

    Anaerobic fermentation of lignocellulose occurs in both natural and managed environments, and is an essential part of the carbon cycle as well as a promising route to sustainable production of fuels and chemic...

    **aoyu Liang, Jason M. Whitham, Evert K. Holwerda in Biotechnology for Biofuels (2018)

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    A bacterial pioneer produces cellulase complexes that persist through community succession

    Cultivation of microbial consortia provides low-complexity communities that can serve as tractable models to understand community dynamics. Time-resolved metagenomics demonstrated that an aerobic cellulolytic ...

    Sebastian Kolinko, Yu-Wei Wu, Firehiwot Tachea, Evelyn Denzel in Nature Microbiology (2018)

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    MaxBin: an automated binning method to recover individual genomes from metagenomes using an expectation-maximization algorithm

    Recovering individual genomes from metagenomic datasets allows access to uncultivated microbial populations that may have important roles in natural and engineered ecosystems. Understanding the roles of these ...

    Yu-Wei Wu, Yung-Hsu Tang, Susannah G Tringe, Blake A Simmons, Steven W Singer in Microbiome (2014)

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    Editing site analysis in a gymnosperm mitochondrial genome reveals similarities with angiosperm mitochondrial genomes

    Sequence analysis of organelle genomes and comprehensive analysis of C-to-U editing sites from flowering and non-flowering plants have provided extensive sequence information from diverse taxa. This study incl...

    Michael Lee Salmans, Shu-Miaw Chaw, Ching-** Lin in Current Genetics (2010)