The role of the microbiota in human genetic adaptation. Suzuki TA and Ley RE. Science. 370:eaaz6827. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz6827
Large scale metagenome assembly reveals novel animal-associated microbial genomes, biosynthetic gene clusters, and other genetic diversity. Youngblut ND, de la Cuesta-Zuluaga J, Reischer GH, Dauser S, Schuster N, Walzer C, Stalder G, Farnleitner A and Ley RE. mSystems. 5:e01045-20. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.01045-20
Strain-level analysis of Bifidobacterium spp. from gut microbiomes of adults of differing lactase persistence genotypes. Schmidt V, Enav H, Spector T, Youngblut ND and Ley RE. mSystems. 5:e00911-20. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00911-20
Epidemiology and associated microbiota changes in deployed military personnel at high risk of traveler’s diarrhea. Walters WA, Reyes F, Soto GM, Reynolds ND, Fraser JA, Aviles R, Tribble DR, Irvin AP, Loughnane NK, Gutierrez RL, Riddle MS, Ley RE and Goodson MS. PLoS One. 15:e0236703. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236703
Sphingolipids produced by gut bacteria enter host metabolic pathways impacting ceramide levels. Johnson EL, Heaver SL, Waters JL, Kim BI, Bretin A, Goodman AL, Gewirtz AT, Worgall TS and Ley RE. Nature Communications. 11:2471. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16274-w
DeepMAsED: Evaluating the quality of metagenomics assemblies. Mineeva O, Rojas-Carulla M, Ley RE, Schoelkopf B and Youngblut ND. Bioinformatics. 36:3011-3017. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa124
Struo: a pipeline for building custom databases for common metagenome profilers. de la Cuesta-Zuluaga J, Ley RE and Youngblut ND. Bioinformatics. 36:2314-2315. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz899
Syntrophy via interspecies H2 transfer between Christensenella and Methanobrevibacter underlies their global co-occurrence in the human gut. Ruaud A, Esquivel-Elizondo S, de la Cuesta-Zuluaga J, Waters JL, Angenent LT, Youngblut ND and Ley RE. mBio. 11:e03235-19. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03235-19
Iron deficiency causes wrinkles in host-commensal relationships. Clasen S and Ley RE. Cell Metabolism. 31:8-10. (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.12.003