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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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Preserving microbial diversity
TL;DR: It is believed that changes in the human microbiota occurring concomitantly with industrialization may be the underlying factor in the dramatic increases in metabolic, immune, and cognitive diseases, including obesity, diabetes, asthma, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, and autism.
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MIxS-BE: A MIxS extension defining a minimum information standard for sequence data from the built environment
Elizabeth M. Glass,Yekaterina Dribinsky,Pelin Yilmaz,Hal Levin,Robert Van Pelt,Doug Wendel,Andreas Wilke,Jonathan A. Eisen,Susan M. Huse,Anna Shipanova,Mitchell L. Sogin,Jason E. Stajich,Rob Knight,Rob Knight,Folker Meyer,Lynn M. Schriml +15 more
TL;DR: MIxS-BE: a MIxS extension defining a minimum information standard for sequence data from the built environment and its implications for knowledge representation and retrieval are outlined.
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Comparison of Illumina paired-end and single-direction sequencing for microbial 16S rRNA gene amplicon surveys
TL;DR: Comparison of Illumina paired-end and single-direction sequencing for microbial 16S rRNA gene amplicon surveys shows clear differences between the results obtained with respect to the number of genes sequenced and the direction they came from.
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The influence of personality on neural mechanisms of observational fear and reward learning.
TL;DR: It is suggested that neuroticism is associated with an increased sensitivity in the neural mechanism for fear learning which leads to enhanced encoding of fear associations, and that low extraversion/high introversion is related to enhanced conditionability for both fear and reward learning.
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A gut-derived metabolite alters brain activity and anxiety behaviour in mice
Brittany D. Needham,Masanori Funabashi,Mark D. Adame,Zhuo Wang,Joseph C. Boktor,Jillian R. Haney,Weili Wu,Claire Rabut,Mark S. Ladinsky,Son-Jong Hwang,Yumei Guo,Qiyun Zhu,Jessica A. Griffiths,Rob Knight,Pamela J. Bjorkman,Mikhail G. Shapiro,Daniel H. Geschwind,Daniel P. Holschneider,Michael A. Fischbach,Sarkis K. Mazmanian +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identified biosynthetic genes from the gut microbiome that mediate the conversion of dietary tyrosine to 4-ethylphenol (4EP), and bioengineered gut bacteria to selectively produce 4EP in mice.