Diet specialization selects for an unusual and simplified gut microbiota in two- and three-toed sloths

An interesting correlation between methane production rates and archaea cell density during anaerobic digestion with increasing organic loading

(2015) Kiyohiko Nakasaki et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Comparative genome analysis of Prevotella intermedia strain isolated from infected root canal reveals features related to pathogenicity and adaptation

(2015) Yunfeng Ruan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Digestive physiology, metabolism and methane production of captive Linné's two-toed sloths (Choloepus didactylus)

(2015) C. Vendl et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION

Variation in koala microbiomes within and between individuals: effect of body region and captivity status

(2015) Niccoló Alfano et al.   Scientific Reports

The role of gut microbes in satisfying the nutritional demands of adult and juvenile wild, black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra)

(2014) Katherine R. Amato et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Fermentable non-starch polysaccharides increases the abundance of Bacteroides–Prevotella–Porphyromonas in ileal microbial community of growing pigs

(2014) E. Ivarsson et al.   Animal

Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins

(2014) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest

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

PNAS Plus: From the Cover: Oligotyping analysis of the human oral microbiome

(2014) A. M. Eren et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A syndrome of mutualism reinforces the lifestyle of a sloth

(2014) J. N. Pauli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Habitat degradation impacts black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) gastrointestinal microbiomes

(2013) Katherine R Amato et al.   ISME Journal

Shade-grown cacao supports a self-sustaining population of two-toed but not three-toed sloths

(2013) M. Zachariah Peery et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Convergence of gut microbiomes in myrmecophagous mammals

(2013) Frédéric Delsuc et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Cecropia peltata Accumulates Starch or Soluble Glycogen by Differentially Regulating Starch Biosynthetic Genes

(2013) S. Bischof et al.   PLANT CELL

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

Investigation of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) hindgut microbiome via 16S pyrosequencing

(2013) Christopher J. Barker et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

The mating system of a ‘lazy’ mammal, Hoffmann's two-toed sloth

(2012) M. Zachariah Peery et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Unexpected Strong Polygyny in the Brown-Throated Three-Toed Sloth

(2012) Jonathan N. Pauli et al.   PLoS One

Tempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversification

(2012) S. A. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons

(2011) Christopher Quince et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Ruminococcus champanellensis sp. nov., a cellulose-degrading bacterium from human gut microbiota

(2011) C. Chassard et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Blautia stercoris sp. nov., isolated from human faeces

(2011) S.-K. Park et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative analyses of foregut and hindgut bacterial communities in hoatzins and cows

(2011) Filipa Godoy-Vitorino et al.   ISME Journal

Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research

(2011) Robert S. Sikes et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Evaluation of bacterial diversity in the rumen and feces of cattle fed different levels of dried distillers grains plus solubles using bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing1

(2010) T. R. Callaway et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Rumen chemical and bacterial changes during stepwise adaptation to a high-concentrate diet in goats

(2009) Y. Z. Sun et al.   Animal

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Basfia succiniciproducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Pasteurellaceae isolated from bovine rumen

(2009) P. Kuhnert et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Cellulosilyticum ruminicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the rumen of yak, and reclassification of Clostridium lentocellum as Cellulosilyticum lentocellum comb. nov.

(2009) S. Cai et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Succinic Acid Production from Acid Hydrolysate of Corn Fiber by Actinobacillus succinogenes

(2008) Kequan Chen et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

(2008) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY