Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

Sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas harbor convergent gut microbial communities

(2013) A. H. Moeller et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Great ape genetic diversity and population history

(2013) Javier Prado-Martinez et al.   NATURE

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Long-Term Stability of the Human Gut Microbiota

(2013) J. J. Faith et al.   SCIENCE

Surveying the Microbiome of Ants: Comparing 454 Pyrosequencing with Traditional Methods To Uncover Bacterial Diversity

(2012) Stefanie Kautz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

High-Resolution Analysis of Gut Environment and Bacterial Microbiota Reveals Functional Compartmentation of the Gut in Wood-Feeding Higher Termites (Nasutitermes spp.)

(2012) Tim Köhler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deep sequencing reveals extensive variation in the gut microbiota of wild mosquitoes from Kenya

(2012) J. Osei-Poku et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species

(2012) KIRK E. ANDERSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

(2012) D. R. Colman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Knowing your friends: invertebrate innate immunity fosters beneficial bacterial symbioses

(2012) Spencer V. Nyholm et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of DNA Extraction Methods for Microbial Community Profiling with an Application to Pediatric Bronchoalveolar Lavage Samples

(2012) Dana Willner et al.   PLoS One

The Dynamics of Foraging Trails in the Tropical Arboreal Ant Cephalotes goniodontus

(2012) Deborah M. Gordon   PLoS One

Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park

(2012) P. H. Degnan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes

(2012) Andrew H. Moeller et al.   Nature Communications

Evaluation of Subsampling-Based Normalization Strategies for Tagged High-Throughput Sequencing Data Sets from Gut Microbiomes

(2011) Daniel Aguirre de Cárcer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A large-scale benchmark study of existing algorithms for taxonomy-independent microbial community analysis

(2011) Y. Sun et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation

(2011) Marco Archetti et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Impact of training sets on classification of high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA gene surveys

(2011) Jeffrey J Werner et al.   ISME Journal

Evolution of symbiotic organs and endosymbionts in lygaeid stinkbugs

(2011) Yu Matsuura et al.   ISME Journal

Target Region Selection Is a Critical Determinant of Community Fingerprints Generated by 16S Pyrosequencing

(2011) Purnima S. Kumar et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

(2011) J. L. Sachs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

(2011) H. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Normal gut microbiota modulates brain development and behavior

(2011) R. D. Heijtz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diet Drives Convergence in Gut Microbiome Functions Across Mammalian Phylogeny and Within Humans

(2011) B. D. Muegge et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System

(2011) James Angus Chandler et al.   PLoS Genetics

Nectar- and pollen-gathering Cephalotes ants provide no protection against herbivory: a new manipulative experiment to test ant protective capabilities

(2010) Jonas Byk et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

(2010) Susan M. Huse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative analysis of microbial diversity in Longitarsus flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

(2010) Scott T. Kelley et al.   GENETICA

A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees

(2010) VINCENT G. MARTINSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster

(2010) G. Sharon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary Relationships of Wild Hominids Recapitulated by Gut Microbial Communities

(2010) Howard Ochman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Program note: Cladescan, a program for automated phylogenetic sensitivity analysis

(2009) Jon G. Sanders   CLADISTICS

Microbial community profiling for human microbiome projects: Tools, techniques, and challenges

(2009) M. Hamady et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

(2009) Christopher Quince et al.   NATURE METHODS

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Evaluation of the bacterial diversity in the feces of cattle using 16S rDNA bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP)

(2008) Scot E Dowd et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Ecological specialization and the evolution of a specialized caste inCephalotesants

(2008) Scott Powell   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE

Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

(2008) R. E. Ley et al.   SCIENCE

Ileum of the Cephalotes ants: A specialized structure to harbor symbionts microorganisms

(2007) Murillo Lino Bution et al.   MICRON