Search Results - "Keith A Crandall"
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Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-04-2018)“…Increasing our understanding of Earth’s biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its resources are among the most crucial scientific and social challenges of…”
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A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (24-04-2019)“…Comprising over 15 000 living species, decapods (crabs, shrimp and lobsters) are the most instantly recognizable crustaceans, representing a considerable…”
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Genome-wide analysis of SARS-CoV-2 virus strains circulating worldwide implicates heterogeneity
Published in Scientific reports (19-08-2020)“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel evolutionary divergent RNA virus, is responsible for the present devastating COVID-19…”
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Many species in one: DNA barcoding overestimates the number of species when nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes are coamplified
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-09-2008)“…Nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (numts) are nonfunctional copies of mtDNA in the nucleus that have been found in major clades of eukaryotic organisms. They…”
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Gut microbiome differences between wild and captive black rhinoceros – implications for rhino health
Published in Scientific reports (28-05-2019)“…A number of recent studies have shown the importance of the mammalian gut microbiome in host health. In the context of endangered species, a few studies have…”
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Metagenomic profiling pipelines improve taxonomic classification for 16S amplicon sequencing data
Published in Scientific reports (26-08-2023)“…Most experiments studying bacterial microbiomes rely on the PCR amplification of all or part of the gene for the 16S rRNA subunit, which serves as a biomarker…”
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Kisspeptin/GPR54 System: What Do We Know About Its Role in Human Reproduction?
Published in Cellular physiology and biochemistry (01-01-2018)“…Kisspeptin is involved in the control of human reproduction bridging the gap between the sex steroid levels and feedback mechanisms that control the…”
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Metabolite, protein, and tissue dysfunction associated with COVID-19 disease severity
Published in Scientific reports (16-07-2022)“…Proteins are direct products of the genome and metabolites are functional products of interactions between the host and other factors such as environment,…”
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Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-10-2015)“…Reconstructing the phylogenetic relationships that unite all lineages (the tree of life) is a grand challenge. The paucity of homologous character data across…”
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Baseline human gut microbiota profile in healthy people and standard reporting template
Published in PloS one (11-09-2019)“…A comprehensive knowledge of the types and ratios of microbes that inhabit the healthy human gut is necessary before any kind of pre-clinical or clinical study…”
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Earthworms drastically change fungal and bacterial communities during vermicomposting of sewage sludge
Published in Scientific reports (30-07-2021)“…Wastewater treatment plants produce hundreds of million tons of sewage sludge every year all over the world. Vermicomposting is well established worldwide and…”
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Pathogen typing in the genomics era: MLST and the future of molecular epidemiology
Published in Infection, genetics and evolution (01-06-2013)“…► We review the molecular methods, analytical approaches and contributions of MLST. ► We compare MLST to whole genome sequence typing approaches (WGST). ► We…”
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Deep Ancestral Introgression Shapes Evolutionary History of Dragonflies and Damselflies
Published in Systematic biology (19-04-2022)“…Abstract Introgression is an important biological process affecting at least 10% of the extant species in the animal kingdom. Introgression significantly…”
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Spatial diversity of the skin bacteriome
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (19-09-2023)“…The bacterial communities of the human skin impact its physiology and homeostasis, hence elucidating the composition and structure of the healthy skin…”
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Global diversity of crayfish (Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae--Decapoda) in freshwater
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-01-2008)“…The freshwater crayfishes are distributed across all but the Indian and Antarctic continents with centers of diversity in the southeastern Appalachian…”
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A new molecular phylogeny-based taxonomy of parasitic barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala)
Published in Zoological journal of the Linnean Society (01-10-2020)“…Abstract Rhizocephalans are abundant members of marine ecosystems and are important regulators of crustacean host populations. Morphological and ecological…”
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Telescope: Characterization of the retrotranscriptome by accurate estimation of transposable element expression
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-09-2019)“…Characterization of Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) expression within the transcriptomic landscape using RNA-seq is complicated by uncertainty in fragment…”
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Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape
Published in Scientific reports (21-04-2020)“…Accurate, rapid, and comprehensive biodiversity assessments are critical for investigating ecological processes and supporting conservation efforts…”
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Drug Resistance Prediction Using Deep Learning Techniques on HIV-1 Sequence Data
Published in Viruses (19-05-2020)“…The fast replication rate and lack of repair mechanisms of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) contribute to its high mutation frequency, with some mutations…”
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Nasopharyngeal Microbiome Diversity Changes over Time in Children with Asthma
Published in PloS one (20-01-2017)“…The nasopharynx is a reservoir for pathogens associated with respiratory illnesses such as asthma. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been used to…”
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