Microbial communities associated with human decomposition and their potential use as postmortem clocks

Isolation of a Substantial Proportion of Forest Soil Bacterial Communities Detected via Pyrotag Sequencing

(2013) David VanInsberghe et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluating the efficacy of various thermo-stable polymerases against co-extracted PCR inhibitors in ancient DNA samples

(2013) Cara Monroe et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

The potential use of bacterial community succession in forensics as described by high throughput metagenomic sequencing

(2013) Jennifer L. Pechal et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE

An improved method compatible with metagenomic analyses to extract genomic DNA from soils inTuber melanosporumorchards

(2013) S. Antony-Babu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Taxonomic Classification of Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes Using Short Sequencing Reads: Evaluation of Effective Study Designs

(2013) Orna Mizrahi-Man et al.   PLoS One

The Living Dead: Bacterial Community Structure of a Cadaver at the Onset and End of the Bloat Stage of Decomposition

(2013) Embriette R. Hyde et al.   PLoS One

Coval: Improving Alignment Quality and Variant Calling Accuracy for Next-Generation Sequencing Data

(2013) Shunichi Kosugi et al.   PLoS One

Microbial Community Functional Change during Vertebrate Carrion Decomposition

(2013) Jennifer L. Pechal et al.   PLoS One

Improving Griffith's protocol for co-extraction of microbial DNA and RNA in adsorptive soils

(2013) Mélanie M. Paulin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Improvement of short tandem repeat analysis of samples highly contaminated by humic acid

(2013) Seung Bum Seo et al.   Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Next-Generation Sequence Assembly: Four Stages of Data Processing and Computational Challenges

(2013) Sara El-Metwally et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system

(2013) Jessica L Metcalf et al.   eLife

High throughput phospholipid fatty acid analysis of soils

(2012) Jeffrey S. Buyer et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

A tale of three next generation sequencing platforms: comparison of Ion torrent, pacific biosciences and illumina MiSeq sequencers

(2012) Michael Quail et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Current opportunities and challenges in microbial metagenome analysis--a bioinformatic perspective

(2012) H. Teeling et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Comparison of commercial kits for the extraction of DNA from paddy soils

(2012) S. Knauth et al.   LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

(2012)   NATURE

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

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

Active and total microbial communities in forest soil are largely different and highly stratified during decomposition

(2011) Petr Baldrian et al.   ISME Journal

Metagenomic comparison of direct and indirect soil DNA extraction approaches

(2011) Tom O. Delmont et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   PLoS One

The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010.

(2011) Jack A. Gilbert et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

A Roadmap for Bridging Basic and Applied Research in Forensic Entomology

(2010) J.K. Tomberlin et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Moisture can be the dominant environmental parameter governing cadaver decomposition in soil

(2010) David O. Carter et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Forensic mycology: the use of fungi in criminal investigations

(2010) David L. Hawksworth et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

The application of amplicon length heterogeneity PCR (LH-PCR) for monitoring the dynamics of soil microbial communities associated with cadaver decomposition

(2010) Lilliana I. Moreno et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

A Primer on Metagenomics

(2010) John C. Wooley et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Insect succession and carrion decomposition in selected forests of Central Europe. Part 1: Pattern and rate of decomposition

(2009) Szymon Matuszewski et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

The NIH Human Microbiome Project

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Mutants of Taq DNA polymerase resistant to PCR inhibitors allow DNA amplification from whole blood and crude soil samples

(2009) M. B. Kermekchiev et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Innovative Methods for Soil DNA Purification Tested in Soils with Widely Differing Characteristics

(2008) M. Sagova-Mareckova et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Temperature affects microbial decomposition of cadavers (Rattus rattus) in contrasting soils

(2008) David O. Carter et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The biochemical alteration of soil beneath a decomposing carcass

(2008) Laura A. Benninger et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL