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University of Colorado Boulder
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About: University of Colorado Boulder is a education organization based out in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Galaxy. The organization has 48794 authors who have published 115151 publications receiving 5387328 citations. The organization is also known as: CU Boulder & UCB.
Topics: Population, Galaxy, Context (language use), Poison control, Stars
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TL;DR: Soils collected across a long-term liming experiment were used to investigate the direct influence of pH on the abundance and composition of the two major soil microbial taxa, fungi and bacteria, and both the relative abundance and diversity of bacteria were positively related to pH.
Abstract: Soils collected across a long-term liming experiment (pH 4.0-8.3), in which variation in factors other than pH have been minimized, were used to investigate the direct influence of pH on the abundance and composition of the two major soil microbial taxa, fungi and bacteria. We hypothesized that bacterial communities would be more strongly influenced by pH than fungal communities. To determine the relative abundance of bacteria and fungi, we used quantitative PCR (qPCR), and to analyze the composition and diversity of the bacterial and fungal communities, we used a bar-coded pyrosequencing technique. Both the relative abundance and diversity of bacteria were positively related to pH, the latter nearly doubling between pH 4 and 8. In contrast, the relative abundance of fungi was unaffected by pH and fungal diversity was only weakly related with pH. The composition of the bacterial communities was closely defined by soil pH; there was as much variability in bacterial community composition across the 180-m distance of this liming experiment as across soils collected from a wide range of biomes in North and South America, emphasizing the dominance of pH in structuring bacterial communities. The apparent direct influence of pH on bacterial community composition is probably due to the narrow pH ranges for optimal growth of bacteria. Fungal community composition was less strongly affected by pH, which is consistent with pure culture studies, demonstrating that fungi generally exhibit wider pH ranges for optimal growth.
2,966 citations
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that high-quality read length and abundance are the primary factors differentiating correct from erroneous reads produced by Illumina GAIIx, HiSeq and MiSeq instruments.
Abstract: High-throughput sequencing has revolutionized microbial ecology, but read quality remains a considerable barrier to accurate taxonomy assignment and α-diversity assessment for microbial communities. We demonstrate that high-quality read length and abundance are the primary factors differentiating correct from erroneous reads produced by Illumina GAIIx, HiSeq and MiSeq instruments. We present guidelines for user-defined quality-filtering strategies, enabling efficient extraction of high-quality data and facilitating interpretation of Illumina sequencing results.
2,931 citations
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TL;DR: The results reveal that transmissible and modifiable interactions between diet and microbiota influence host biology and that adiposity is transmissible from human to mouse and that it was associated with changes in serum levels of branched-chain amino acids.
Abstract: How much does the microbiota influence the host's phenotype? Ridaura et al. ([1241214][1] ; see the Perspective by [ Walker and Parkhill ][2]) obtained uncultured fecal microbiota from twin pairs discordant for body mass and transplanted them into adult germ-free mice. It was discovered that adiposity is transmissible from human to mouse and that it was associated with changes in serum levels of branched-chain amino acids. Moreover, obese-phenotype mice were invaded by members of the Bacteroidales from the lean mice, but, happily, the lean animals resisted invasion by the obese microbiota.
[1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6150/1241214.full
[2]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1243787
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that the currently used equation for predicting maximal heart rate in older adults underestimates HRmax, which would have the effect of underestimating the true level of physical stress imposed during exercise testing and the appropriate intensity of prescribed exercise programs.
2,924 citations
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Jeffrey D. Stanaway1, Ashkan Afshin1, Emmanuela Gakidou1, Stephen S Lim1 +1050 more•Institutions (346)
TL;DR: This study estimated levels and trends in exposure, attributable deaths, and attributable disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) by age group, sex, year, and location for 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or groups of risks from 1990 to 2017 and explored the relationship between development and risk exposure.
2,910 citations
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Yi Chen | 217 | 4342 | 293080 |
Robert J. Lefkowitz | 214 | 860 | 147995 |
Rob Knight | 201 | 1061 | 253207 |
Charles A. Dinarello | 190 | 1058 | 139668 |
Jie Zhang | 178 | 4857 | 221720 |
David Haussler | 172 | 488 | 224960 |
Bradley Cox | 169 | 2150 | 156200 |
Gang Chen | 167 | 3372 | 149819 |
Rodney S. Ruoff | 164 | 666 | 194902 |
Menachem Elimelech | 157 | 547 | 95285 |
Jay Hauser | 155 | 2145 | 132683 |
Robert E. W. Hancock | 152 | 775 | 88481 |
Robert Plomin | 151 | 1104 | 88588 |
Thomas E. Starzl | 150 | 1625 | 91704 |
Rajesh Kumar | 149 | 4439 | 140830 |