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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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Mosquito Microbiome Dynamics, a Background for Prevalence and Seasonality of West Nile Virus.
Eva Nováková,Douglas C. Woodhams,Sonia M. Rodríguez-Ruano,Robert M. Brucker,Jonathan W. Leff,Jonathan W. Leff,Amin Maharaj,Amnon Amir,Rob Knight,James A. Scott +9 more
TL;DR: It is found that mosquito species was the largest driver of the microbiota, with remarkable phylosymbiosis between host and microbiota, and several operational taxonomic units of Wolbachia that drive overall microbial community differentiation among mosquito taxa, locations and timepoints are identified.
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A Generalized Mechanism for Perception of Pitch Patterns
TL;DR: A neurophysiological mechanism for rapid probabilistic learning of a new system of music based on the Bohlen-Pierce scale demonstrates that humans use a generalized probability-based perceptual learning mechanism to process novel sound patterns in music.
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Phylogenetic and ecological factors impact the gut microbiota of two Neotropical primate species
Katherine R. Amato,Katherine R. Amato,Rodolfo Martínez-Mota,Nicoletta Righini,Melissa Raguet-Schofield,Melissa Raguet-Schofield,Fabiana Paola Corcione,Elisabetta Marini,Greg Humphrey,Grant Gogul,James Gaffney,Elijah Lovelace,La Shanda Williams,Albert Luong,Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello,Rebecca M. Stumpf,Bryan A. White,Karen E. Nelson,Rob Knight,Steven R. Leigh +19 more
TL;DR: Fecal samples from two species of howler monkey are utilized to investigate factors influencing the gut microbiota at three scales: taxonomic (host species), ecosystemic (forest type), and local (habitat disturbance/season).
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The Cladistic Basis for the Phylogenetic Diversity (PD) Measure Links Evolutionary Features to Environmental Gradients and Supports Broad Applications of Microbial Ecology’s “Phylogenetic Beta Diversity” Framework
TL;DR: The PD measure of phylogenetic diversity interprets branch lengths cladistically to make inferences about feature diversity, and interpretation of these PD-dissimilarities at the feature level explains the framework’s success in producing ordinations revealing environmental gradients.
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Effects of library size variance, sparsity, and compositionality on the analysis of microbiome data
Sophie Weiss,Zhenjiang Xu,Amnon Amir,Shyamal D. Peddada,Kyle Bittinger,Antonio Gonzalez,Catherine A. Lozupone,Jesse R. Zaneveld,Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza,Amanda Birmingham,Rob Knight +10 more
TL;DR: Evaluating methods developed in the literature to address challenges to ecological and statistical interpretation of 16S amplicon sequencing finds rarefying paired with a non-parametric test, such as the Mann-Whitney test, can also yield equally high sensitivity.