Gianluca De Bellis

TL;DR: A high-quality genome sequence of domesticated tomato is presented, a draft sequence of its closest wild relative, Solanum pimpinellifolium, is compared, and the two tomato genomes are compared to each other and to the potato genome.

TL;DR: It is shown that the Hadza have higher levels of microbial richness and biodiversity than Italian urban controls, and enrichment in Prevotella, Treponema and unclassified Bacteroidetes, as well as a peculiar arrangement of Clostridiales taxa, may enhance the hadza’s ability to digest and extract valuable nutrition from fibrous plant foods.

TL;DR: An analysis of pyrosequencing data of PCR amplicons derived from two hypervariable regions of the 16 S rRNA gene revealed a predominance of bifidobacteria in the infant gut as well as a profile of co-occurrence of b ifidobacterial species in the infants’s intestine.

TL;DR: Overexpression of the pluripotent cytokine interleukin‐1 by microglial cells correlates with formation of neuritic β‐amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease, and data suggest either a direct effect of the IL‐1 gene family on the clinical onset of AD, or a linkage dysequilibrium with an unknown locus relevant to AD on chromosome 2.

TL;DR: The whole-genome sequence of an epidemic, multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strain (strain ACICU) belonging to the European clone II group and carrying the plasmid-mediated blaOXA-58 carbapenem resistance gene was determined, providing novel insight into the genetic basis of A. baumANNii resistance.