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List of works by Laura Wegener Parfrey

A benign helminth alters the host immune system and the gut microbiota in a rat model system.

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A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity

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A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system

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A modular organization of the human intestinal mucosal microbiota and its association with inflammatory bowel disease

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Alternate life history phases of a common seaweed have distinct microbial surface communities

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Are Human Intestinal Eukaryotes Beneficial or Commensals?

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Associations between infant fungal and bacterial dysbiosis and childhood atopic wheeze in a nonindustrialized setting

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Asymptomatic Intestinal Colonization with Protist Blastocystis Is Strongly Associated with Distinct Microbiome Ecological Patterns.

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Bacterial diversification through geological time

article by Stilianos Louca et al published September 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Broadly sampled multigene analyses yield a well-resolved eukaryotic tree of life

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Changes in bacterial and eukaryotic communities during sewage decomposition in Mississippi river water

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

Columbia spotted frogs (Rana luteiventris) have characteristic skin microbiota that may be shaped by cutaneous skin peptides and the environment

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Combined phylogenetic and genomic approaches for the high-throughput study of microbial habitat adaptation

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

Communities of microbial eukaryotes in the mammalian gut within the context of environmental eukaryotic diversity

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Convergence of gut microbiomes in myrmecophagous mammals

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Correcting for 16S rRNA gene copy numbers in microbiome surveys remains an unsolved problem

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Deconstructing the Bat Skin Microbiome: Influences of the Host and the Environment

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Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

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Defining the human microbiome

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Diverse Bacteria Utilize Alginate Within the Microbiome of the Giant Kelp

article by Jordan D Lin et al published 2018 in Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of forced taxonomic transitions on metabolic composition and function in microbial microcosms

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

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EukRef: Phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Evaluating rodent experimental models for studies of Blastocystis ST1

scholarly article published by Kateřina Jirků Pomajbíková in 2018

Evaluating support for the current classification of eukaryotic diversity

scientific article published in December 2006

Experimental and analytical tools for studying the human microbiome

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Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Genome dynamics are influenced by food source in Allogromia laticollaris strain CSH (Foraminifera)

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Genome-wide analysis of transcriptional dependence and probable target sites for Abf1 and Rap1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soil

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

scientific article published on 05 December 2016

Human-associated microbial signatures: examining their predictive value

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Incubation with macroalgae induces large shifts in water column microbiota, but minor changes to the epibiota of co-occurring macroalgae

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Introduction: The host-associated microbiome: Pattern, process and function

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Is Host Filtering the Main Driver of Phylosymbiosis across the Tree of Life?

Meeting report: fungal its workshop (october 2012).

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

Microbial community dynamics and effect of environmental microbial reservoirs on red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus).

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Microbial eukaryotes in the human microbiome: ecology, evolution, and future directions

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Microeukaryotic Communities Associated with the Seagrass Zostera marina are Spatially Structured

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Mock communities highlight the diversity of host-associated eukaryotes

scientific article published on September 2015

Molecular Data are Transforming Hypotheses on the Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes

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Multicellularity arose several times in the evolution of eukaryotes (response to DOI 10.1002/bies.201100187).

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Phylogeny and ultrastructure of Miliammina fusca: evidence for secondary loss of calcification in a Miliolid Foraminifer

scientific article published in May 2006

Spatial and temporal variability of the human microbiota

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Stunted childhood growth is associated with decompartmentalization of the gastrointestinal tract and overgrowth of oropharyngeal taxa

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Subulatomonas tetraspora nov. gen. nov. sp. is a Member of a Previously Unrecognized Major Clade of Eukaryotes

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Sympatric kelp species share a large portion of their surface bacterial communities

scientific article published in 2017

The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Human Health: An Integrative View

scientific article (publication date: 16 March 2012)

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

taxonomic paper

The SILVA and "All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)" taxonomic frameworks

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The amphibian skin-associated microbiome across species, space and life history stages

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The benign helminth Hymenolepis diminuta ameliorates chemically induced colitis in a rat model system

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

The chastity of amoebae: re-evaluating evidence for sex in amoeboid organisms

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The dynamic nature of eukaryotic genomes

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Transmission mode and dispersal traits correlate with host specificity in mammalian gut microbes

scientific article published on 14 February 2023

Turning the crown upside down: gene tree parsimony roots the eukaryotic tree of life.

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UniEuk: Time to Speak a Common Language in Protistology!

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Vertebrate Hosts as Islands: Dynamics of Selection, Immigration, Loss, Persistence, and Potential Function of Bacteria on Salamander Skin

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Wildcards in climate change biology

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