Joy Y. Yang

TL;DR: The molecular analysis of gut contents targeting the 313 COI fragment using the newly designed mlCOIintF primer in combination with the jgHCO2198 primer offers enormous promise for metazoan metabarcoding studies.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that physiologic attributes and topography of skin differentially shape these two microbial communities, which provide a framework for future investigation of the contribution of interactions between pathogenic and commensal fungal and bacterial communities to the maintainenace of human health and to disease pathogenesis.

TL;DR: It is shown that statistical analysis of DNA from natural microbial communities can be used to accurately identify environmental contaminants, including uranium and nitrate at a nuclear waste site, and the bacterial strains that are most useful for detecting oil and uranium are known to interact with these substrates.

TL;DR: Data suggest that viruses of the non-tailed dsDNA DJR lineage are important but often overlooked predators of bacteria and archaea that impose fundamentally different predation and gene transfer regimes on microbial systems than on tailed viruses, which form the basis of all environmental models of bacteria–virus interactions.

TL;DR: In this article , a large-scale isolation of environmental marine Vibrio bacteria and their phages is used to obtain estimates of strain-level phage predator loads, and use all-by-all host range assays to discover how phage and host genomic diversity shape interactions.