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Rob Knight

Researcher at University of California, San Diego

Publications -  1188
Citations -  322479

Rob Knight is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microbiome & Biology. The author has an hindex of 201, co-authored 1061 publications receiving 253207 citations. Previous affiliations of Rob Knight include Anschutz Medical Campus & University of Sydney.

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Rapidly denoising pyrosequencing amplicon reads by exploiting rank-abundance distributions.

TL;DR: A fast method for denoising pyrosequencing for community 16S rRNA analysis is developed and a 2–4 fold reduction in the number of observed OTUs is observed comparing denoised with non-denoised data.
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Microbiota Regulate Intestinal Absorption and Metabolism of Fatty Acids in the Zebrafish

TL;DR: In vivo imaging of fluorescent fatty acid analogs delivered to gnotobiotic zebrafish hosts reveals that microbiota stimulate FA uptake and lipid droplet formation in the intestinal epithelium and liver, providing mechanistic insight into how microbiota-diet interactions regulate host energy balance.
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Identifying Genetic Determinants Needed to Establish a Human Gut Symbiont in Its Habitat

TL;DR: This work used massively parallel sequencing to monitor the relative abundance of tens of thousands of transposon mutants of a saccharolytic human gut bacterium, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, as they established themselves in wild-type and immunodeficient gnotobiotic mice, in the presence or absence of other human gut commensals.