The inclusion of antibiotic growth promoters, such as virginiamycin, at subtherapeutic levels
in poultry feeds has a positive effect on health and growth characteristics, possibly due to …

In order to address the hypothesis that seeds from ecologically and geographically diverse
plants harbor characteristic epiphytic microbiota, we characterized the bacterial and fungal …

Barcoding with molecular sequences is widely used to catalogue eukaryotic biodiversity.
Studies investigating the community dynamics of microbes have relied heavily on gene-centric …

We compared dideoxy sequencing of cloned chaperonin-60 universal target (cpn60 UT)
amplicons to pyrosequencing of amplicons derived from vaginal microbial communities. In …

Phytoplasmas (‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’) are insect-transmitted, cell-wall-less, plant-pathogenic
bacteria that cause economically important crop diseases. Because phytoplasmas are …

Resistance to HIV infection in a cohort of commercial sex workers living in Nairobi, Kenya, is
linked to mucosal and antiinflammatory factors that may be influenced by the vaginal …

We have combined the culture-independent methods of high-throughput sequencing of
chaperonin-60 PCR product libraries and quantitative PCR to profile and quantify the small-…

A time-course analysis was conducted of thermophilic anaerobic digestion of dairy manure
and wheat distillery thin stillage. Sequencing of chaperonin targets provided a phylogenetic …

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a recurrent condition that is associated with a range of negative
outcomes, including the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually …

Birth mode has been implicated as a major factor influencing neonatal gut microbiome
development, and it has been assumed that exposure to the maternal vaginal microbiome is …