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Kota Watanabe, Azusa Yamada, Yuri Nishi, Yukihiro Tashiro, Kenji Sakai
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(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marie E. Bunker, Stacey L. Weiss
Summary: Animals and their microbiomes have mutual influence, with the environment, physiology, and phylogeny of the host impacting the microbiome composition, while the microbes can affect the behavior, health, and fitness of the host. This study examines the cloacal microbiome of different Sceloporus species and finds differences in beta diversity metrics between animals in different environments, despite closer relatedness. All species have the same dominant taxon, but variation is observed in low abundance taxa and at the ASV level. Understanding the factors influencing wild microbiome composition is important for ecological and evolutionary research of host animals.
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Zachary B. Freedman, Alicia Mcgrew, Benjamin Baiser, Mathilde Besson, Dominique Gravel, Timothee Poisot, Sydne Record, Lauren B. Trotta, Nicholas J. Gotelli
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ryo Kinoshita-Daitoku, Kotaro Kiga, Masatoshi Miyakoshi, Ryota Otsubo, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Takahito Sanada, Zhu Bo, Tuan Vo Phuoc, Tokuju Okano, Tamako Iida, Rui Yokomori, Eisuke Kuroda, Sayaka Hirukawa, Mototsugu Tanaka, Arpana Sood, Phawinee Subsomwong, Hiroshi Ashida, Tran Thanh Binh, Lam Tung Nguyen, Khien Vu Van, Dang Quy Dung Ho, Kenta Nakai, Toshihiko Suzuki, Yoshio Yamaoka, Tetsuya Hayashi, Hitomi Mimuro
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(2021)
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L. Moitinho-Silva, N. Boraczynski, H. Emmert, H. Baurecht, S. Szymczak, H. Schulz, D. Haller, J. Linseisen, C. Gieger, A. Peters, L. Tittmann, W. Lieb, C. Bang, A. Franke, E. Rodriguez, S. Weidinger
Summary: This study found associations of skin microbiota with skin microenvironment, age, body mass index, sex, dietary macronutrients, smoking, alcohol consumption, skin pH, skin type, transepidermal water loss, education and environmental exposures. The skin bacterial community is shaped by the skin microenvironment and host physiology to a greater extent than single skin physiological feature, lifestyle, and environmental exposure.
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(2021)
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Boris R. Krasnov, Georgy Shenbrot, Irina S. Khokhlova
Summary: The assemblage of species in a locality can be divided into realized diversity and dark diversity. This study focused on the dark diversity of flea communities parasitic on small mammals in the northern Palearctic, and found that environmental factors and host traits play important roles in determining the size of dark diversity.
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(2022)
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Patil Tawidian, Kerri L. Coon, Ari Jumpponen, Lee W. Cohnstaedt, Kristin Michel
Summary: Our study found significant differences in fungal communities among different larval breeding habitats of mosquitoes, with the gut-associated fungal communities showing the highest similarity to those in the environment. This suggests that the environment plays a dominant role in shaping fungal communities associated with mosquito larvae.
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Kangcheng Wang, Yufei Hu, Qiang He, Feiyu Xu, Yan Jing Wu, Ying Yang, Wenxin Zhang
Summary: This study used network analysis to assess the associations between different environmental factors and depressive symptoms in adolescents and identified key pathways between them. The findings suggested that childhood trauma experiences may have greater psychological impacts on adolescent depression than family and social peer environments, and should be considered as crucial targets for preventing severe depressive moods.
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Chenchen Guo, Li Zhang, Qianqian Zhao, Manfred Beckmann, Helen Phillips, Huizhen Meng, Chonghui Mo, Luis A. J. Mur, Wei He
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Suguru Nishijima, Naoyoshi Nagata, Yuya Kiguchi, Yasushi Kojima, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Moto Kimura, Mitsuru Ohsugi, Kohjiro Ueki, Shinichi Oka, Masashi Mizokami, Takao Itoi, Takashi Kawai, Naomi Uemura, Masahira Hattori
Summary: This study investigates the indigenous bacteriophage communities in the human gut and their relationship with the bacterial communities and anti-viral defense mechanisms. The distribution of host bacteria is found to be a key factor in determining the distribution of phages in the gut, and virome diversity is highly correlated with anti-viral defense mechanisms of the bacteriome. Various factors, including age, sex, lifestyle, diet, disease, and medication, significantly affect the virome structure.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Barbara Santos, Filipa M. S. Martins, Joana Sabino-Pinto, Fulvio Licata, Angelica Crottini
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Nur Edy, Henry Novero Barus, Reiner Finkeldey, Andrea Polle
Summary: The transformation of tropical lowland rain forests into rubber tree and oil palm plantations leads to the loss of vegetation diversity and affects the community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). This study found that generalist AMF are resistant to the removal of host species richness, but oil palm and rubber tree roots exhibit a significant reduction in AMF richness compared to rainforest roots.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nadja Alexandra Vielot, Ruthly Francois, Emilya Huseynova, Fredman Gonzalez, Yaoska Reyes, Lester Gutierrez, Johan Nordgren, Christian Toval-Ruiz, Samuel Vilchez, Jan Vinje, Sylvia Becker-Dreps, Filemon Bucardo, Kentaro Tohma
Summary: Exclusive breastfeeding for a short duration does not prevent norovirus or sapovirus acute gastroenteritis (AGE), but maternal secretor-positive phenotype may reduce the risk of norovirus AGE.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fang Luo, Ling-Zeng Meng, S. Tharanga Aluthwattha, Mei-Ying Lin, Andreas Weigel, Wen-Fu Zhang, Jin-Hua Qi, Jin Chen
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Eirik Nataas Hanssen, Ekaterina Avershina, Knut Rudi, Peter Gill, Lars Snipen
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Ekaterina Avershina, Raul Cabrera Rubio, Krister Lundgard, Gaspar Perez Martinez, Maria Carmen Collado, Ola Storro, Torbjorn Oien, Christian Kvikne Dotterud, Roar Johnsen, Knut Rudi
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Microbiology
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(2018)
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Anuradha Ravi, Ekaterina Avershina, Inga Leena Angell, Jane Ludvigsen, Prasanth Manohar, Sumathi Padmanaban, Ramesh Nachimuthu, Lars Snipen, Knut Rudi
JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS
(2018)
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Ekaterina Avershina, Silje Slangsvold, Melanie Rae Simpson, Ola Storro, Roar Johnsen, Torbjorn Oien, Knut Rudi
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2017)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ekaterina Avershina, Marte Gro Larsen, Marina Aspholm, Toril Lindback, Ola Storro, Torbjorn Oien, Roar Johnsen, Knut Rudi
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Arne M. Taxt, Ekaterina Avershina, Stephan A. Frye, Umaer Naseer, Rafi Ahmad
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2020)
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Microbiology
Abdolrahman Khezri, Ekaterina Avershina, Rafi Ahmad
Summary: This study analyzed strains from Norwegian patients and found the IncFIB plasmid to be the most prevalent in both E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates, along with identifying certain plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance genes. Hybrid assembly was used to more confidently locate plasmids and predict antibiotic resistance genes.
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Infectious Diseases
Ekaterina Avershina, Abdolrahman Khezri, Rafi Ahmad
Summary: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) causes millions of deaths annually and its rapid spread requires changes in healthcare routines. The lack of rapid diagnostic tools for pathogen identification and AMR detection is a major issue. DNA sequencing technologies offer potential for rapid diagnostics, but currently require advanced bioinformatics knowledge and are not suitable for routine use.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ekaterina Avershina, Priyanka Sharma, Arne M. Taxt, Harpreet Singh, Stephan A. Frye, Kolin Paul, Arti Kapil, Umaer Naseer, Punit Kaur, Rafi Ahmad
Summary: This study utilizes neural networks and sequencing technologies to predict antibiotic susceptibility in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, reducing the time needed for susceptibility prediction. Through cross-checking and ensemble networks, the accuracy of cross-dataset prediction is improved.
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FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS
(2020)
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Food Science & Technology
Guro Alette Bjerke, Knut Rudi, Ekaterina Avershina, Birgitte Moen, Hans Blom, Lars Axelsson