Eoin L. Brodie

TL;DR: A 16S rRNA gene database (http://greengenes.lbl.gov) was used to provide chimera screening, standard alignment, and taxonomic classification using multiple published taxonomies as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors showed that colonisation of mice with a segmented filamentous bacterium (SFB) is sufficient to induce the appearance of CD4+ T helper cells that produce IL-17 and IL-22 (Th17 cells) in the lamina propria.

TL;DR: An online tool could be developed to efficiently align thousands of 16S rRNA genes via the NAST algorithm for creating multiple sequence alignments (MSA) and distance matrices can be calculated for diversity estimates and organisms can be classified by taxonomy.

TL;DR: It is shown that pre-programmed developmental processes in plants result in consistent patterns in the chemical composition of root exudates, which provides a mechanistic underpinning for the process of rhizosphere microbial community assembly and provides an attractive direction for the manipulation of the Rhizosphere microbiome for beneficial outcomes.

TL;DR: Terabase-scale cultivation-independent metagenomics is applied to aquifer sediments and groundwater and 2,540 draft-quality, near-complete and complete strain-resolved genomes are reconstructed, finding that few organisms within the community can conduct multiple sequential redox transformations.