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The Gut Microbiome, Metformin, and Aging by Induri, Sri Nitya Reddy, Kansara, Payalben, Thomas, Scott C, Xu, Fangxi, Saxena, Deepak, Li, Xin

“…Metformin has been extensively used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and it may also promote healthy aging. Despite its widespread use and versatility,…”
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Electronic Cigarette Use Promotes a Unique Periodontal Microbiome by Thomas, Scott C, Xu, Fangxi, Pushalkar, Smruti, Lin, Ziyan, Thakor, Nirali, Vardhan, Mridula, Flaminio, Zia, Khodadadi-Jamayran, Alireza, Vasconcelos, Rebeca, Akapo, Adenike, Queiroz, Erica, Bederoff, Maria, Janal, Malvin N, Guo, Yuqi, Aguallo, Deanna, Gordon, Terry, Corby, Patricia M, Kamer, Angela R, Li, Xin, Saxena, Deepak

“…Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have become prevalent as an alternative to conventional cigarette smoking, particularly in youth. E-cig aerosols contain unique…”
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Nonhuman Primate Communication, Pragmatics, and the Origins of Language by Scott-Phillips, Thomas C.

“…Comparisons with the cognition and communication of other species have long informed discussions of the origins and evolution of human communication and…”
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Combinatorial quorum sensing allows bacteria to resolve their social and physical environment by Cornforth, Daniel M., Popat, Roman, McNally, Luke, Gurney, James, Scott-Phillips, Thomas C., Ivens, Alasdair, Diggle, Stephen P., Brown, Sam P.

“…Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell—cell communication system that controls gene expression in many bacterial species, mediated by diffusible signal molecules…”
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Position-Specific Metabolic Probing and Metagenomics of Microbial Communities Reveal Conserved Central Carbon Metabolic Network Activities at High Temperatures by Thomas, Scott C, Tamadonfar, Kevin O, Seymour, Cale O, Lai, Dengxun, Dodsworth, Jeremy A, Murugapiran, Senthil K, Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley A, Dijkstra, Paul, Hedlund, Brian P

“…Temperature is a primary driver of microbial community composition and taxonomic diversity; however, it is unclear to what extent temperature affects…”
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THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL by Scott-Phillips, Thomas C., Laland, Kevin N., Shuker, David M., Dickins, Thomas E., West, Stuart A.

“…Niche construction refers to the activities of organisms that bring about changes in their environments, many of which are evolutionarily and ecologically…”
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Genomic Comparison of Two Family-Level Groups of the Uncultivated NAG1 Archaeal Lineage from Chemically and Geographically Disparate Hot Springs by Becraft, Eric D, Dodsworth, Jeremy A, Murugapiran, Senthil K, Thomas, Scott C, Ohlsson, J Ingemar, Stepanauskas, Ramunas, Hedlund, Brian P, Swingley, Wesley D

“…Recent progress based on single-cell genomics and metagenomic investigations of archaea in a variety of extreme environments has led to significant advances in…”
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An evolutionary approach to emotional communication by Dezecache, Guillaume, Mercier, Hugo, Scott-Phillips, Thomas C.

“…The study of pragmatics is typically concerned with ostensive communication (especially through language), in which we not only provide evidence for our…”
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A novel SUCNR1 inhibitor alleviates dysbiosis through inhibition of host responses without direct interaction with host microbiota by Thomas, Scott C., Guo, Yuqi, Xu, Fangxi, Saxena, Deepak, Li, Xin

“…Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic metabolic disorder in which insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion result in altered metabolite balance,…”
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Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency by Dijkstra, Paul, Thomas, Scott C., Heinrich, Paul L., Koch, George W., Schwartz, Egbert, Hungate, Bruce A.

“…We used metabolic tracers and modeling to analyze the response of soil metabolism to a sudden change in temperature from 4 to 20 °C. We hypothesized that…”
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Combinatorial communication in bacteria: implications for the origins of linguistic generativity by Scott-Phillips, Thomas C, Gurney, James, Ivens, Alasdair, Diggle, Stephen P, Popat, Roman

“…Combinatorial communication, in which two signals are used together to achieve an effect that is different to the sum of the effects of the component parts, is…”
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On maintenance and metabolisms in soil microbial communities by Dijkstra, Paul, Martinez, Ayla, Thomas, Scott C., Seymour, Cale O., Wu, Weichao, Dippold, Michaela A., Megonigal, J. Patrick, Schwartz, Egbert, Hungate, Bruce A.

“…Scope Biochemistry is an essential yet undervalued aspect of soil ecology, especially when analyzing soil C cycling. We assume, based on tradition, intuition…”
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Simulating the real origins of communication by Blythe, Richard A, Scott-Phillips, Thomas C

“…How communication systems emerge is a topic of relevance to several academic disciplines. Numerous existing models, both mathematical and computational, study…”
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Targeting the succinate receptor effectively inhibits periodontitis by Guo, Yuqi, Xu, Fangxi, Thomas, Scott C., Zhang, Yanli, Paul, Bidisha, Sakilam, Satish, Chae, Sungpil, Li, Patty, Almeter, Caleb, Kamer, Angela R., Arora, Paramjit, Graves, Dana T., Saxena, Deepak, Li, Xin

“…Periodontal disease (PD) is one of the most common inflammatory diseases in humans and is initiated by an oral microbial dysbiosis that stimulates inflammation…”
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Applicant Reactions to Selection Procedures: An Updated Model and Meta-Analysis by Hausknecht, John P., Day, David V., Thomas, Scott C.

“…An updated theoretical model of applicant reactions to selection procedures is proposed and tested using meta‐analysis. Results from 86 independent samples (N=…”
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Thermophilic Dehalococcoidia with unusual traits shed light on an unexpected past by Palmer, Marike, Covington, Jonathan K., Zhou, En-Min, Thomas, Scott C., Habib, Neeli, Seymour, Cale O., Lai, Dengxun, Johnston, Juliet, Hashimi, Ameena, Jiao, Jian-Yu, Muok, Alise R., Liu, Lan, Xian, Wen-Dong, Zhi, Xiao-Yang, Li, Meng-Meng, Silva, Leslie P., Bowen, Benjamin P., Louie, Katherine, Briegel, Ariane, Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Weber, Peter K., Tocheva, Elitza I., Woyke, Tanja, Northen, Trent R., Mayali, Xavier, Li, Wen-Jun, Hedlund, Brian P.

“…Although the phylum Chloroflexota is ubiquitous, its biology and evolution are poorly understood due to limited cultivability. Here, we isolated two motile,…”
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Electronic cigarette use enriches periodontal pathogens by Xu, Fangxi, Pushalkar, Smruti, Lin, Ziyan, Thomas, Scott C., Persaud, Julia Kishanie, Sierra, Maria A, Vardhan, Mridula, Vasconcelos, Rebeca, Akapo, Adenike, Guo, Yuqi, Gordon, Terry, Corby, Patricia M, Kamer, Angela R., Li, Xin, Saxena, Deepak

“…The effect of electronic cigarette (e‐cigarette) smoking, especially its long‐term impact on oral health, is poorly understood. Here, we conducted a…”
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How Darwinian is cultural evolution? by Claidière, Nicolas, Scott-Phillips, Thomas C., Sperber, Dan

“…Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time…”
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Language evolution in the laboratory by Scott-Phillips, Thomas C, Kirby, Simon

“…The historical origins of natural language cannot be observed directly. We can, however, study systems that support language and we can also develop models…”
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The Evolution of Relevance by Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.

“…With human language, the same utterance can have different meanings in different contexts. Nevertheless, listeners almost invariably converge upon the correct…”
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