Environmental DNA sequencing has revealed the expansive biodiversity of microorganisms
and clarified the relationship between host-associated microbial communities and host …

The advent of large-scale microbiome studies affords newfound analytical opportunities to
understand how these communities of microbes operate and relate to their environment. …

Zebrafish have a 50-year history as a model organism for studying vertebrate developmental
biology and more recently have emerged as a powerful model system for studying …

Community-level data, the type generated by an increasing number of metabarcoding
studies, is often graphed as stacked bar charts or pie graphs that use color to represent taxa. …

Obesity is an important and intractable public health problem. In addition to the well-known
risk factors of behavior, diet, and genetics, gut microbial communities were recently identified …

While most Ascomycetes tend to associate principally with plants, the dimorphic fungi
Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii are primary pathogens of immunocompetent …

… S Riesenfeld, B Dorazio, J Eisen, JC Thrash, JA Gilbert, N Fierer, G Howard and VL Sharpton
provided valuable insight and discussion. This research was funded by Gordon and Betty …

We have sequenced the genomes of 18 isolates of the closely related human pathogenic
fungi Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii to more clearly elucidate population …

… Sharpton … Sharpton … Gaulke, CA, Sharpton, TJ The influence of ethnicity and
geography on human gut microbiome composition. Nat Med 24, 1495–1496 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0210-8 …

Rapid, sensitive, and specific virus detection is an important component of clinical diagnostics.
Massively parallel sequencing enables new diagnostic opportunities that complement …