Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Main Factors Influencing the Gut Microbiota of Datong Yaks in Mixed Group.

  PMID 35883324 · PMC9312300 · Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Gut microbial diversity (alpha and beta) differs significantly among domestic males, domestic females, and wild male Datong yaks.

  fresh fecal 16s alpha-diversity beta-diversity

• Metagenomic study of the oral microbiota by Illumina high-throughput sequencing.

  PMID 19796657 · PMC3568755 · Journal of microbiological methods · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The 16S rRNA V5 hypervariable region, amplified as a short ~82-base segment, provides reliable taxonomic identification of oral bacteria against public databases like HOMD.

  pooled 16s sequenced topo 16s primer taxonomic

• Dental Plaque Microbial Resistomes of Periodontal Health and Disease and Their Changes after Scaling and Root Planing Therapy.

  PMID 34287005 · PMC8386447 · mSphere · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 76

  Periodontitis significantly alters dental plaque microbial community diversity and structure compared to healthy and treated states

  dental metagenomic taxonomic arg

• Machine learning reveals microbial interactions driving plastic degradation across plastisphere environments.

  PMID 41657981 · PMC12876002 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2025 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Wastewater plastispheres harbor the most diverse and compositionally even microbial communities among the three habitats.

  ocean wastewater surface plastisphere 16s alpha beta

• The lords of the genomes.

  PMID 15461811 · PMC545592 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Functionally active clusters of transcription-factor binding sites are evolutionarily conserved between Drosophila species, whereas inactive clusters are not, even when sequence identity alone cannot distinguish them

  drosophila cdna-derived saccharomyces acid reporter-gene enhancer chromatin

• Microbial Community Shifts Associated With the Ongoing Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreak on the Florida Reef Tract.

  PMID 31608047 · PMC6769089 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2019 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 93

  Five amplicon sequence variants (unclassified Flavobacteriales, Fusibacter, Planktotalea, Algicola, and Vibrio) were consistently enriched in disease lesions across three coral species (M. cavernosa, D. labyrinthiformis, D. stokesii)

  coral cavernosa 16s differential principal

• What defines a photosynthetic microbial mat in western Antarctica?

  PMID 40043057 · PMC11882083 · PloS one · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Taxonomic composition of Antarctic microbial mat communities is characterized by similar bacterial groups across regions

  microbial quality-filtered overflowing shotgun taxonomic alpha

• Microbial metagenomics.

  PMID 16207365 · PMC1257460 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Metagenomic sequencing of the human GI tract reveals microbial community composition (e.g., Actinobacteria and Archaea prominence) differing from prior culture-based estimates dominated by Firmicutes and Bacteroides

  gastrointestinal acid ocean group metagenomic shotgun comparative

• Gut-derived Lactobacillus from exceptional responders mitigates chemoradiotherapy-induced intestinal injury through methionine-driven epigenetic modulation.

  PMID 40469520 · PMC12130557 · iMeta · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  High pretreatment gut abundance of Lactobacillus (and Bifidobacterium) is strongly associated with the absence of ACRIII in rectal cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

  baseline model mice intestinal shotgun fecal intestinal

• A method for selectively enriching microbial DNA from contaminating vertebrate host DNA.

  PMID 24204593 · PMC3810253 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  MBD-Fc bound to Protein A paramagnetic beads selectively binds methylated (vertebrate host) DNA, depleting it from mixed samples

  3h-labeled imr-90 lambda saliva scintillation genome restriction

• Environment and Co-occurring Native Mussel Species, but Not Host Genetics, Impact the Microbiome of a Freshwater Invasive Species (Corbicula fluminea).

  PMID 35444631 · PMC9014210 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 55

  The gut microbiome of C. fluminea is diverse, differs with environmental conditions, and varies spatially among rivers, but is unrelated to host genetic variation

  corbicula six sediment filtered 16s radseq picrust2

• How bacterial communities expand functional repertoires.

  PMID 17238278 · PMC1750926 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The human microbiome contains roughly 100 times as many genes as does the human genome

  bacteroides distal interleukin-10-deficient macrophages transcriptional metagenomic microbiota

• Aerobic nonylphenol degradation and nitro-nonylphenol formation by microbial cultures from sediments.

  PMID 20043151 · PMC2825322 · Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aerobic biodegradation of branched NP in polluted river sediment occurs within 8 days after a 2-day lag phase at 30°C

  np-polluted sediment-derived fourth-generation extracted biodegradation serial metabolite

• Estimating biodiversity across the tree of life on Mount Everest's southern flank with environmental DNA.

  PMID 36148432 · PMC9486557 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 65

  eDNA from ten high-alpine ponds and streams (4,500-5,500 m) on Mt. Everest's southern flank revealed 187 potential orders from 36 phyla across the Tree of Life.

  edna khumbu genome metabarcoding satellite

• Metapangenomics of wild and cultivated banana microbiome reveals a plethora of host-associated protective functions.

  PMID 37085932 · PMC10120106 · Environmental microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Root and corm endosphere communities are significantly richer and compositionally distinct from leaf endosphere communities across Musa genotypes

  root musa assembled prokka-annotated shotgun culture-free metagenome

• Effect of elevation, season and accelerated snowmelt on biogeochemical processes during isolated conifer needle litter decomposition.

  PMID 34434657 · PMC8362670 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Elevation and soil type influenced baseline soil biogeochemical indicators

  lodgepole upper soil surficial needle soil porewater

• The effect of diet on the human gut microbiome: a metagenomic analysis in humanized gnotobiotic mice.

  PMID 20368178 · PMC2894525 · Science translational medicine · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Germ-free C57BL/6J mice can be stably and heritably colonized with a human fecal microbiota, reproducing much of the donor's bacterial diversity.

  fecal postnatal luminal pooled 16s shotgun body

• Metagenomic analysis of respiratory tract DNA viral communities in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis individuals.

  PMID 19816605 · PMC2756586 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CF phage communities are highly similar to each other, whereas Non-CF individuals have more distinct, variable phage communities reflecting transient environmental sampling

  sputum phage metagenomes inferred metagenomic functional diversity

• Integrative analysis of single-cell RNA-seq and gut microbiome metabarcoding data elucidates macrophage dysfunction in mice with DSS-induced ulcerative colitis.

  PMID 38879692 · PMC11180211 · Communications biology · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Epithelial cell populations are significantly reduced during acute DSS colitis, reflecting tissue damage, with partial recovery in chronic colitis

  colon gut single-cell 16s western

• Bioavailable Nutrients (N and P) and Precipitation Patterns Drive Cyanobacterial Blooms in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain.

  PMID 34683418 · PMC8537112 · Microorganisms · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  High concentrations of N and P were typically measured in April and May, before blooms occurred.

  water filtered lugol's-iodine-preserved 16s 16s nutrient situ