Search Results - "Levi, Kyle"
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Dietary prophage inducers and antimicrobials: toward landscaping the human gut microbiome
Published in Gut microbes (03-07-2020)“…The approximately 10 11 viruses and microbial cells per gram of fecal matter (dry weight) in the large intestine are important to human health. The responses…”
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A diversity-generating retroelement encoded by a globally ubiquitous Bacteroides phage
Published in Microbiome (23-10-2018)“…Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are genetic cassettes that selectively mutate target genes to produce hypervariable proteins. First characterized in…”
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Cardiac autonomic modulation impairments in advanced breast cancer patients
Published in Clinical research in cardiology (01-10-2018)“…Aim To compare cardiac autonomic modulation in early- versus advanced-stage breast cancer patients before any type of cancer treatment and investigate…”
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A Distinct Contractile Injection System Gene Cluster Found in a Majority of Healthy Adult Human Microbiomes
Published in mSystems (01-08-2020)“…To engage with host cells, diverse pathogenic bacteria produce syringe-like structures called contractile injection systems (CIS). CIS are evolutionarily…”
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Global phylogeography and ancient evolution of the widespread human gut virus crAssphage
Published in Nature microbiology (01-10-2019)“…Microbiomes are vast communities of microorganisms and viruses that populate all natural ecosystems. Viruses have been considered to be the most variable…”
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Bam Scripts: Tools for Retrieving Data from the Sequence Read Archive and Analysis with Read Mapping
Published 01-01-2017“…The Sequence Read Archive is the world’s largest collection of raw DNA sequencing data and while it provides an adequate online search functionality for…”
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NCBI's Virus Discovery Hackathon: Engaging Research Communities to Identify Cloud Infrastructure Requirements
Published in Genes (16-09-2019)“…A wealth of viral data sits untapped in publicly available metagenomic data sets when it might be extracted to create a usable index for the virological…”
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Mitochondrial recovery from shotgun metagenome sequencing enabling phylogenetic analysis of the common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)
Published in Meta Gene (01-02-2018)“…The common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) is an important fisheries species in the northeastern Pacific Ocean along California, USA and Mexico; yet genetic…”
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