Search Results - "Gregory, C A"

Environmental barcoding: a next-generation sequencing approach for biomonitoring applications using river benthos by Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Shokralla, Shadi, Zhou, Xin, Singer, Gregory A C, Baird, Donald J

“…Timely and accurate biodiversity analysis poses an ongoing challenge for the success of biomonitoring programs. Morphology-based identification of bioindicator…”
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Microbial imbalance in inflammatory bowel disease patients at different taxonomic levels by Alam, Mohammad Tauqeer, Amos, Gregory C A, Murphy, Andrew R J, Murch, Simon, Wellington, Elizabeth M H, Arasaradnam, Ramesh P

“…Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is a debilitating group of chronic diseases including Crohn's Disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), which causes…”
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Metagenomic characterisation of canine skin reveals a core healthy skin microbiome by Whittle, Michaella J., Castillo-Fernandez, Juan, Amos, Gregory C. A., Watson, Phillip

“…Furthering our knowledge of the skin microbiome is essential to understand health and disease in canines. To date, studies into the canine skin microbiome have…”
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The widespread dissemination of integrons throughout bacterial communities in a riverine system by Amos, Gregory C. A., Ploumakis, Semina, Zhang, Lihong, Hawkey, Peter M., Gaze, William H., Wellington, Elizabeth M. H.

“…Anthropogenic inputs increase levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment, however, it is unknown how these inputs create this observed…”
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Impact of acute stress on the canine gut microbiota by Patel, Krusha V., Hunt, Alysia B. G., Castillo-Fernandez, Juan, Abrams, Christine, King, Tammie, Watson, Phillip, Amos, Gregory C. A.

“…There is growing evidence that a relationship exists between mental and emotional wellbeing and the gut microbiota. Little is known regarding how the…”
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Comparative transcriptomics as a guide to natural product discovery and biosynthetic gene cluster functionality by Amos, Gregory C. A., Awakawa, Takayoshi, Tuttle, Robert N., Letzel, Anne-Catrin, Kim, Min Cheol, Kudo, Yuta, Fenical, William, Moore, Bradley S., Jensen, Paul R.

“…Bacterial natural products remain an important source of new medicines. DNA sequencing has revealed that a majority of natural product biosynthetic gene…”
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A universal DNA mini-barcode for biodiversity analysis by Meusnier, Isabelle, Singer, Gregory A C, Landry, Jean-François, Hickey, Donal A, Hebert, Paul D N, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad

“…The goal of DNA barcoding is to develop a species-specific sequence library for all eukaryotes. A 650 bp fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) gene has…”
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Conserved signatures of the canine faecal microbiome are associated with metronidazole treatment and recovery by Marshall-Jones, Zoe V., Patel, Krusha V., Castillo-Fernandez, Juan, Lonsdale, Zoe N., Haydock, Richard, Staunton, Ruth, Amos, Gregory C. A., Watson, Phillip

“…Antibiotic resistance is recognised as one of the biggest global threats to human and animal health. Understanding the influence of antibiotics on the canine…”
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Developing standards for the microbiome field by Amos, Gregory C A, Logan, Alastair, Anwar, Saba, Fritzsche, Martin, Mate, Ryan, Bleazard, Thomas, Rijpkema, Sjoerd

“…Effective standardisation of methodologies to analyse the microbiome is essential to the entire microbiome community. Despite the microbiome field being…”
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Exploring how microbiome signatures change across inflammatory bowel disease conditions and disease locations by Amos, Gregory C. A., Sergaki, Chrysi, Logan, Alastair, Iriarte, Rolland, Bannaga, Ayman, Chandrapalan, Subashini, Wellington, Elizabeth M. H., Rijpkema, Sjoerd, Arasaradnam, Ramesh P.

“…Understanding the variables that influence microbiome studies is critical for successful translational research. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex…”
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DNA barcoding: how it complements taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics and population genetics by Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Singer, Gregory A.C, Hebert, Paul D.N, Hickey, Donal A

“…DNA barcoding aims to provide an efficient method for species-level identifications and, as such, will contribute powerfully to taxonomic and biodiversity…”
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A Salivary Gland Resident Macrophage Subset Regulating Radiation Responses by Zhao, Q., Pan, S., Zhang, L., Zhang, Y., Shahsavari, A., Lotey, P., Baetge, C.L., Deveau, M.A., Gregory, C.A., Kapler, G.M., Liu, F.

“…Radiotherapy of head and neck cancers frequently leads to irreversible hypofunction of salivary glands, which severely compromises the quality of life and is…”
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Validated predictive modelling of the environmental resistome by Amos, Gregory CA, Gozzard, Emma, Carter, Charlotte E, Mead, Andrew, Bowes, Mike J, Hawkey, Peter M, Zhang, Lihong, Singer, Andrew C, Gaze, William H, Wellington, Elizabeth M H

“…Multi-drug-resistant bacteria pose a significant threat to public health. The role of the environment in the overall rise in antibiotic-resistant infections…”
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NAMERS: a purpose-built reference DNA sequence database to support applied eDNA metabarcoding by Westfall, Kristen M., Singer, Gregory A. C., Kaushal, Muneesh, Gilmore, Scott R., Fahner, Nicole, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Abbott, Cathryn L.

“…Applied eDNA metabarcoding is increasingly being considered as a tool to inform management decisions, regulations, or policy development. Because these…”
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Direct PCR amplification and sequencing of specimens' DNA from preservative ethanol by Shokralla, Shadi, Singer, Gregory A C, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad

“…DNA extraction is the first step in many molecular biology protocols. However, we hypothesized that DNA from a preserved specimen can leak into its…”
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Designing and Implementing an Assay for the Detection of Rare and Divergent NRPS and PKS Clones in European, Antarctic and Cuban Soils by Amos, Gregory C A, Borsetto, Chiara, Laskaris, Paris, Krsek, Martin, Berry, Andrew E, Newsham, Kevin K, Calvo-Bado, Leo, Pearce, David A, Vallin, Carlos, Wellington, Elizabeth M H

“…The ever increasing microbial resistome means there is an urgent need for new antibiotics. Metagenomics is an underexploited tool in the field of drug…”
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An inter-laboratory study to investigate the impact of the bioinformatics component on microbiome analysis using mock communities by O’Sullivan, Denise M., Doyle, Ronan M., Temisak, Sasithon, Redshaw, Nicholas, Whale, Alexandra S., Logan, Grace, Huang, Jiabin, Fischer, Nicole, Amos, Gregory C. A., Preston, Mark D., Marchesi, Julian R., Wagner, Josef, Parkhill, Julian, Motro, Yair, Denise, Hubert, Finn, Robert D., Harris, Kathryn A., Kay, Gemma L., O’Grady, Justin, Ransom-Jones, Emma, Wu, Huihai, Laing, Emma, Studholme, David J., Benavente, Ernest Diez, Phelan, Jody, Clark, Taane G., Moran-Gilad, Jacob, Huggett, Jim F.

“…Despite the advent of whole genome metagenomics, targeted approaches (such as 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing) continue to be valuable for determining the…”
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Genomic insights into specialized metabolism in the marine actinomycete Salinispora by Letzel, Anne‐Catrin, Li, Jing, Amos, Gregory C.A., Millán‐Aguiñaga, Natalie, Ginigini, Joape, Abdelmohsen, Usama R., Gaudêncio, Susana P., Ziemert, Nadine, Moore, Bradley S., Jensen, Paul R.

“…Summary Comparative genomics is providing new opportunities to address the diversity and distributions of genes encoding the biosynthesis of specialized…”
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Developing whole cell standards for the microbiome field by Sergaki, Chrysi, Anwar, Saba, Fritzsche, Martin, Mate, Ryan, Francis, Robert J., MacLellan-Gibson, Kirsty, Logan, Alastair, Amos, Gregory C. A.

“…Background Effective standardisation of the microbiome field is essential to facilitate global translational research and increase the reproducibility of…”
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Design and applicability of DNA arrays and DNA barcodes in biodiversity monitoring by Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Singer, Gregory A C, Clare, Elizabeth L, Hebert, Paul D N

“…The rapid and accurate identification of species is a critical component of large-scale biodiversity monitoring programs. DNA arrays (micro and macro) and DNA…”
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