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Metagenomic analysis of dental calculus in ancient Egyptian baboons [PDF]

, 2019
Dental calculus, or mineralized plaque, represents a record of ancient biomolecules and food residues. Recently, ancient metagenomics made it possible to unlock the wealth of microbial and dietary information of dental calculus to reconstruct oral ...
Bramanti, Barbara, Guellil, Meriam, Kersten, Oliver, Ottoni, Claudio, Ozga, Andrew T, Porcier, Stéphanie, Stone, Anne C, Van Neer, Wim   +7 more
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Dysbiosis in the Rhizosphere Microbiome of Standing Dead Korean Fir (Abies koreana)

Plants, 2022
The Korean fir (Abies koreana), a native coniferous tree species mainly found on Mt. Halla in Jeju, South Korea, is suffering from continuous population decline and has been declared an endangered species.
Gil Han, Mohamed Mannaa, Hyoseong Jeon, Hyejung Jung, Jin-Cheol Kim, Ae Ran Park, Young-Su Seo   +6 more
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Meeting report : 1st international functional metagenomics workshop May 7–8, 2012, St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada [PDF]

, 2012
This report summarizes the events of the 1st International Functional Metagenomics Workshop. The workshop was held on May 7 and 8 in St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada and was focused on building a core international functional metagenomics community, exploring
Ashby, Deborah, Brady, Sean F., Charles, Trevor, Cowan, Don A., Doemer, John, Edwards, E. A., Engel, Katja, Fiebig, Klaus, Liles, Mark R., Martens, Eric C., McCormac, Dennis, Mead, David A., Miyazaki, Kentaro, Moreno-Hagelsieb, Gabriel, Neufeld, Josh D., O’Gara, F., Reid, A., Rose, David R., Sessitsch, Angela, Simonet, Pascal, Sjöling, Sara, Smalla, K., Streit, Wolfgang R., Tedman-Jones, Jennifer, Valla, Svein, Wellington, E. M. H., Wu, Cheng-Cang   +26 more
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Cellulose Digestion and Metabolism Induced Biocatalytic Transitions in Anaerobic Microbial Ecosystems

Metabolites, 2013
Anaerobic digestion of highly polymerized biomass by microbial communities present in diverse microbial ecosystems is an indispensable metabolic process for biogeochemical cycling in nature and for industrial activities required to maintain a sustainable
Akira Yamazawa, Tomohiro Iikura, Yusuke Morioka, Amiu Shino, Yoshiyuki Ogata, Yasuhiro Date, Jun Kikuchi   +6 more
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Metagenomic Analysis of Togaviridae in Mosquito Viromes Isolated From Yunnan Province in China Reveals Genes from Chikungunya and Ross River Viruses

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
We collected 5,500 mosquitoes belonging to six species in three locations in China. Their viromes were tested using metagenomic sequencing and bioinformatic analysis.
Guanrong Feng, Jinyong Zhang, Ying Zhang, Chenghui Li, Duo Zhang, Yiquan Li, Hongning Zhou, Nan Li, Pengpeng Xiao   +8 more
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Metagenomic sequencing unravels gene fragments with phylogenetic signatures of O2-tolerant NiFe membrane-bound hydrogenases in lacustrine sediment [PDF]

, 2015
Many promising hydrogen technologies utilising hydrogenase enzymes have been slowed by the fact that most hydrogenases are extremely sensitive to O2. Within the group 1 membrane-bound NiFe hydrogenase, naturally occurring tolerant enzymes do exist, and ...
Couto, Jillian M., Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan, Phoenix, Vernon R., Schirmer, Melanie, Sloan, William T.   +4 more
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Short-Term Dynamics of Bacterial Community Structure in Restored Abandoned Agricultural Soils under Semi-Arid Conditions

Agronomy, 2022
The restoration of unproductive abandoned agricultural soils under a semi-arid climate in southeastern Spain was evaluated. Four organic amendments from different composted wastes (greenhouse crop residues; worm compost from sheep–cow manure and plant ...
Natalia Rodríguez-Berbel, Rocío Soria, Ana B. Villafuerte, Raúl Ortega, Isabel Miralles   +4 more
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The gut microbiota structure of the terrestrial isopod Porcellionides pruinosus (Isopoda: Oniscidea)

The European Zoological Journal, 2020
We used a combination of culture-dependent and independent approaches to study in depth the microbial community associated with the digestive tract of the terrestrial isopod Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt, ).
M. Delhoumi, V. Catania, W. Zaabar, M. Tolone, P. Quatrini, M. S. Achouri   +5 more
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Viromes of Coastal Waters of the North Caspian Sea: Initial Assessment of Diversity and Functional Potential

Diversity, 2023
In recent years, the study of marine viromes has become one of the most relevant areas of geoecology. Viruses are the most numerous, genetically diverse and pervasive biological entities on Earth, including in aquatic ecosystems.
Madina S. Alexyuk, Yurij S. Bukin, Tatyana V. Butina, Pavel G. Alexyuk, Vladimir E. Berezin, Andrey P. Bogoyavlenskiy   +5 more
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Foregut microbiome in development of esophageal adenocarcinoma [PDF]

, 2010
Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA), the type of cancer linked to heartburn due to gastroesophageal reflux diseases (GERD), has increased six fold in the past 30 years. This cannot currently be explained by the usual environmental or by host genetic factors.
Aaron Tenney, Carlos W. Nossa, Daniel Brami, Eoin L. Brodie, Erika Gerz, Fritz Francois, Gary L. Andersen, Indresh K. Singh, Karen E. Nelson, Les Foster, Liying Yang, Manolito Torralba, Mathangi Thiagarajan, Mengling Liu, Michael Poles, Monika Bihan, Morris Traube, Navjeet Singh, Pinak Shah, Shibu Yooseph, Stuart M. Brown, Sukhleen Bedi, Tamasha Parsons, Todd Z. DeSantis, William E. Oberdorf, Yu Chen, Yu-Hui Rogers, Zhiheng Pei   +27 more
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