From Binary Model Systems to the Human Microbiome: Factors That Drive Strain Specificity in Host-Symbiont Associations

Continent-Scale Sampling Reveals Fine-Scale Turnover in a Beneficial Bug Symbiont

(2020) Alison Ravenscraft et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Evolution of Mutualistic Dependence

(2020) Guillaume Chomicki et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota

(2019) Kirsten M. Ellegaard et al.   Nature Communications

The Type VI secretion system: a versatile bacterial weapon

(2019) Sarah Coulthurst   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Natural strain variation reveals diverse biofilm regulation in squid-colonizing Vibrio fischeri

(2019) Ella R. Rotman et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Incompatibility of Vibrio fischeri strains during symbiosis establishment depends on two functionally redundant hcp genes

(2019) Kirsten R. Guckes et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Human gut bacteria contain acquired interbacterial defence systems

(2019) Benjamin D. Ross et al.   NATURE

Division of labor in honey bee gut microbiota for plant polysaccharide digestion

(2019) Hao Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional diversity enables multiple symbiont strains to coexist in deep-sea mussels

(2019) Rebecca Ansorge et al.   Nature Microbiology

Causalities of war: The connection between type VI secretion system and microbiota

(2019) Luke P. Allsopp et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Population Genetics in the Human Microbiome

(2019) Nandita R. Garud et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Bioinformatics tools for quantitative and functional metagenome and metatranscriptome data analysis in microbes

(2018) Sheng-Yong Niu et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Strain-Level Analysis of Mother-to-Child Bacterial Transmission during the First Few Months of Life

(2018) Moran Yassour et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Using niche breadth theory to explain generalization in mutualisms

(2018) Rebecca T. Batstone et al.   ECOLOGY

Symbiont-Mediated Competition: Xenorhabdus bovienii confer an advantage to their nematode host Steinernema affine by killing competitor Steinernema feltiae

(2018) Kristen E. Murfin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The role of the microbiome for human health: from basic science to clinical applications

(2018) M. Hasan Mohajeri et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Important Late-Stage Symbiotic Role of the Sinorhizobium meliloti Exopolysaccharide Succinoglycan

(2018) Markus F. F. Arnold et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Nodule-Specific Cysteine-Rich Peptides Negatively Regulate Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis in a Strain-Specific Manner in Medicago truncatula

(2018) Qi Wang et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Dynamic genomic architecture of mutualistic cooperation in a wild population of Mesorhizobium

(2018) Stephanie S. Porter et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial symbionts use a type VI secretion system to eliminate competitors in their natural host

(2018) Lauren Speare et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial antagonism in host-associated microbial communities

(2018) Leonor García-Bayona et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial strain-level population structure and genetic diversity from metagenomes

(2017) Duy Tin Truong et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Mixed transmission modes and dynamic genome evolution in an obligate animal–bacterial symbiosis

(2017) Shelbi L Russell et al.   ISME Journal

Subspecies in the global human gut microbiome

(2017) Paul I Costea et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash

(2017) Kevin R. Foster et al.   NATURE

Strains, functions and dynamics in the expanded Human Microbiome Project

(2017) Jason Lloyd-Price et al.   NATURE

Microsymbiont discrimination mediated by a host-secreted peptide in Medicago truncatula

(2017) Shengming Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Morphotype of bacteroids in different legumes correlates with the number and type of symbiotic NCR peptides

(2017) Jesús Montiel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host-secreted antimicrobial peptide enforces symbiotic selectivity in Medicago truncatula

(2017) Qi Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Is the trophosome of Ridgeia piscesae monoclonal?

(2017) Maëva Perez et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Genome-Wide Sensitivity Analysis of the Microsymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti to Symbiotically Important, Defensin-Like Host Peptides

(2017) Markus F. F. Arnold et al.   mBio

Unexplored diversity and strain-level structure of the skin microbiome associated with psoriasis

(2017) Adrian Tett et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Intraspecific Competition Impacts Vibrio fischeri Strain Diversity during Initial Colonization of the Squid Light Organ

(2016) Yan Sun et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Strain competition restricts colonization of an enteric pathogen and prevents colitis

(2016) Aaron L Hecht et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Microcins mediate competition among Enterobacteriaceae in the inflamed gut

(2016) Martina Sassone-Corsi et al.   NATURE

Gut microbial communities of social bees

(2016) Waldan K. Kwong et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Human symbionts inject and neutralize antibacterial toxins to persist in the gut

(2016) Aaron G. Wexler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacteroides fragilistype VI secretion systems use novel effector and immunity proteins to antagonize human gut Bacteroidales species

(2016) Maria Chatzidaki-Livanis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Function of Succinoglycan Polysaccharide in Sinorhizobium meliloti Host Plant Invasion Depends on Succinylation, Not Molecular Weight

(2016) Hajeewaka C. Mendis et al.   mBio

Bacteroidales Secreted Antimicrobial Proteins Target Surface Molecules Necessary for Gut Colonization and Mediate Competition In Vivo

(2016) Kevin G. Roelofs et al.   mBio

Tracking Strains in the Microbiome: Insights from Metagenomics and Models

(2016) Ilana L. Brito et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Extensive Strain-Level Copy-Number Variation across Human Gut Microbiome Species

(2015) Sharon Greenblum et al.   CELL

Bacteriocin production augments niche competition by enterococci in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract

(2015) Sushma Kommineni et al.   NATURE

Xenorhabdus bovienii Strain Diversity Impacts Coevolution and Symbiotic Maintenance with Steinernema spp. Nematode Hosts

(2015) Kristen E. Murfin et al.   mBio

Intraspecific diversity among partners drives functional variation in coral symbioses

(2015) John Everett Parkinson et al.   Scientific Reports

Host plant peptides elicit a transcriptional response to control theSinorhizobium meliloticell cycle during symbiosis

(2014) Jon Penterman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts

(2014) W. K. Kwong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ordering microbial diversity into ecologically and genetically cohesive units

(2014) B. Jesse Shapiro et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Dynamics of the continent-wide spread of aDrosophiladefensive symbiont

(2013) Sarah N. Cockburn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EXPLAINING MUTUALISM VARIATION: A NEW EVOLUTIONARY PARADOX?

(2013) Katy D. Heath et al.   EVOLUTION

Structural Analysis of Succinoglycan Oligosaccharides from Sinorhizobium meliloti Strains with Different Host Compatibility Phenotypes

(2013) S. Simsek et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Bacterial colonization factors control specificity and stability of the gut microbiota

(2013) S. Melanie Lee et al.   NATURE

Speak, friend and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants

(2013) Giles E. D. Oldroyd   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Multi-Infections of Feminizing Wolbachia Strains in Natural Populations of the Terrestrial Isopod Armadillidium Vulgare

(2013) Victorien Valette et al.   PLoS One

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

Roles of the Structural Symbiosis Polysaccharide (syp) Genes in Host Colonization, Biofilm Formation, and Polysaccharide Biosynthesis in Vibrio fischeri

(2012) S. Shibata et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Genomic variation landscape of the human gut microbiome

(2012) Siegfried Schloissnig et al.   NATURE

Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees

(2012) Nancy A. Moran et al.   PLoS One

Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

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

Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease

(2010) Inna Sekirov et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

Bioluminescence in the Sea

(2009) Steven H.D. Haddock et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Complex Glycan Catabolism by the Human Gut Microbiota: The Bacteroidetes Sus-like Paradigm

(2009) Eric C. Martens et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A single regulatory gene is sufficient to alter bacterial host range

(2009) Mark J. Mandel et al.   NATURE

Population Structure of Vibrio fischeri within the Light Organs of Euprymna scolopes Squid from Two Oahu (Hawaii) Populations

(2008) M. S. Wollenberg et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY