Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

Nuala A. O’Leary, Matt W. Wright, J. Rodney Brister, +52

Nucleic Acids Research

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

Susannah J. Salter, Michael J. Cox, Elena M. Turek, +7

BMC Biology

Molecular characterization of vulnibactin biosynthesis in Vibrio vulnificus indicates the existence of an alternative siderophore

Wenzhi Tan, Vivek Verma, Kwangjoon Jeong, +4

Frontiers in Microbiology

BacteriologyMolecular BiologyVulnibactin BiosynthesisBiosynthesisMicrobial Genetics +14

Absolute and relative QPCR quantification of plasmid copy number in Escherichia coli

Changsoo Lee, Jaai Kim, Seung Gu Shin, +1

Journal of Biotechnology

Plasmid Copy NumberGeneticsBacteriologyEscherichia ColiFood Microbiology +7

Functional implications of microbial and viral gut metagenome changes in early stage L-DOPA-naïve Parkinson’s disease patients

Janis R. Bedarf, Falk Hildebrand, Luís Pedro Coelho, +5

Genome Medicine

Inherent bacterial DNA contamination of extraction and sequencing reagents may affect interpretation of microbiota in low bacterial biomass samples

Angela Glassing, Scot E. Dowd, Susan Galandiuk, +2

Gut Pathogens

Comparison of placenta samples with contamination controls does not provide evidence for a distinct placenta microbiota

Abigail Lauder, Aoife M. Roche, Scott Sherrill-Mix, +7

Microbiome

Recognizing the reagent microbiome

Marcus C. de Goffau, Susanne Lager, Susannah J. Salter, +6

Nature Microbiology

Reagent MicrobiomeMicrobiome BiologyDysbiosisMicrobiologyMicrobiome +1

Genomic DNA Amplification from a Single Bacterium

Arumugham Raghunathan, Harley R. Ferguson, Carole J. Bornarth, +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Quantitative Real-Time PCR for <i>Porphyromonas gingivalis</i> and Total Bacteria

Sharon R. Lyons, Ann L. Griffen, Eugene J. Leys

Journal of Clinical Microbiology