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Donna Berg-Lyons

Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder

Publications -  18
Citations -  21329

Donna Berg-Lyons is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microbiome & Human microbiome. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 18 publications receiving 16815 citations. Previous affiliations of Donna Berg-Lyons include Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

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

TL;DR: It is shown that the protocol developed for these instruments successfully recaptures known biological results, and additionally that biological conclusions are consistent across sequencing platforms (the HiSeq2000 versus the MiSeq) and across the sequenced regions of amplicons.
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Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

TL;DR: This work sequences a diverse array of 25 environmental samples and three known “mock communities” at a depth averaging 3.1 million reads per sample to demonstrate excellent consistency in taxonomic recovery and recapture diversity patterns that were previously reported on the basis of metaanalysis of many studies from the literature.
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A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of microbial community samples collected by hundreds of researchers for the Earth Microbiome Project is presented, creating both a reference database giving global context to DNA sequence data and a framework for incorporating data from future studies, fostering increasingly complete characterization of Earth’s microbial diversity.
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Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys.

TL;DR: Modification of modified 16S rRNA gene and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) primers for archaea/bacteria and fungi with nonaquatic samples demonstrated that two recently modified primer pairs that target taxonomically discriminatory regions of bacterial and fungal genomic DNA do not introduce new biases when used on a variety of sample types.
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Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used barcoded pyrosequencing to comprehensively survey archaeal and bacterial communities in 146 soils, representing a multitude of soil and ecosystem types from across the globe.