Erratum for Ricci et al., “Host Traits and Phylogeny Contribute to Shaping Coral-Bacterial Symbioses”
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Erratum for Ricci et al., “Host Traits and Phylogeny Contribute to Shaping Coral-Bacterial Symbioses”
Elevated temperature alters microbial communities, but not decomposition rates, during 3 years of in situ peat decomposi...
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Microbial community changes in response to climate change drivers have the potential to alter the trajectory of important ecosystem functions. In this paper, we show that while microbial communities in peatland systems responded to manipulations of temperature and CO2 concentrations, these changes were not associated with similar responses in peat ...
Erratum for Wang et al., “Sodium butyrate facilitates CRHR2 expression to alleviate HPA axis hyperactivity in autism-lik...
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Metabolite diversity among representatives of divergent Prochlorococcus ecotypes
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Approximately half of the annual carbon fixation on Earth occurs in the surface ocean through the photosynthetic activities of phytoplankton such as the ubiquitous picocyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Ecologically distinct subpopulations (or ecotypes) of Prochlorococcus are central conduits of organic substrates into the ocean microbiome, thus playi...
Building a queer- and trans-inclusive microbiology conference
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Microbiology conferences can be powerful places to build collaborations and exchange ideas, but for queer and transgender (trans) scientists, they can also become sources of alienation and isolation. Many conference organizers would like to create welcoming and inclusive events but feel ill-equipped to make this vision a reality, and a historical l...
Proteome efficiency of metabolic pathways in Escherichia coli increases along the nutrient flow
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Protein translation is the most expensive cellular process in fast-growing bacteria, and efficient proteome usage should thus be under strong natural selection. However, recent studies show that a considerable part of the proteome is unneeded for instantaneous cell growth in Escherichia coli. We still lack a systematic understanding of how this exc...
The heterogenous and diverse population of prophages in Mycobacterium genomes
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Mycobacterium species include several human pathogens and mycobacteriophages show potential for therapeutic use to control Mycobacterium infections. However, phage infection profiles vary greatly among Mycobacterium abscessus clinical isolates and phage therapies must be personalized for individual patients. Mycobacterium phage susceptibility is li...
PhamClust: a phage genome clustering tool using proteomic equivalence
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Bacteriophage genomes are pervasively mosaic, presenting challenges to describing phage relatedness. Here, we describe PhamClust, a bioinformatic approach for phage genome comparisons that uses a new metric of proteomic equivalence quotient for comparative genomics. PhamClust reliably assorts genomes into groups or clusters of related phages and ca...
Akkermansia muciniphila supplementation improves glucose tolerance in intestinal Ffar4 knockout mice during the daily li...
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Alterations in the intestinal environment are associated with various diseases, and FFAR4 is abundantly enriched in the intestine, where it has been shown to have the ability to regulate intestinal hormone secretion and intestinal microbiota; here, we confirmed previous reports. Meanwhile, we found that intestinal FFAR4 regulates glucagon-like pept...
Leveraging existing 16S rRNA microbial data to identify diagnostic biomarker in Chinese patients with gastric cancer: a ...
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Gastric cancer is a significant and growing health problem in China. Studies have revealed significant differences in gastric microbiota between patients with gastric cancer and non-cancerous patients, suggesting that microbiota may play a role in tumorigenesis. In this meta-analysis, existing 16S rRNA microbial data were analyzed to find combinati...
