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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Electroacupuncture reshapes the microbial co-occurrence networks related to the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in Alzheimer's disease.

  PMID 41676443 · PMC12806058 · iMetaOmics · 2025 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 77

  Electroacupuncture reshapes microbial co-occurrence network topology and drives keystone species in AD-related BPSD, with R. gnavus emerging as a likely keystone species post-intervention.

  appswe app gut 16s open picrust2

• High-resolution metagenomic reconstruction of the freshwater spring bloom.

  PMID 36698172 · PMC9878933 · Microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  High-frequency metagenomic sampling (57 samples, 3 filter sizes, 2 depths, 37 days) recovers thousands of prokaryotic, eukaryotic, and viral genomes tracking spring bloom succession in fine detail

  freshwater phytoplankton heterotrophic reservoir 16s 18s shotgun

• Unlocking the microbial studies through computational approaches: how far have we reached?

  PMID 36920617 · PMC10016191 · Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Metagenomics enables culture-independent study of microbial communities directly from their natural environments, bypassing the need for clonal isolation.

  clinical bacteriophage vaginal hbv ngs random whole-genome

• Microbial sulfate reduction by Desulfovibrio is an important source of hydrogen sulfide from a large swine finishing facility.

  PMID 34021225 · PMC8140134 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  Sulfate-reducing Desulfovibrio are the key microbial players responsible for H2S production in swine manure slurry despite being a minor community component

  swine sediment manure tom1 35so4 16s shotgun

• Unraveling the role of bacteria with heritable versus non-heritable relative abundance in the gut on boar semen quality.

  PMID 41199168 · PMC12590650 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2025 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 61

  39 heritable and 91 non-heritable bacterial genera were identified in the boar gut based on heritability of relative abundance

  fecal blood boar gut 16s snp gas

• 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

• Functional differentiation determines the molecular basis of the symbiotic lifestyle of Ca. Nanohaloarchaeota.

  PMID 36242054 · PMC9563170 · Microbiome · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 99

  Three MAGs from a stratified salt crust represent a novel order, Nucleotidisoterales, within Ca. Nanohaloarchaeota

  stratified salt nanohaloarchaeota reconstructed 16s metagenomic phylogenomic

• 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

• 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

• Microbial genomics: from sequence to function.

  PMID 10998380 · PMC2627950 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2000 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Whole-genome shotgun sequencing (sequencing and assembly of random genome fragments), first demonstrated with Haemophilus influenzae in 1995, is now the method of choice for sequencing most genomes, including the human genome.

  yeast bacteria microbial high-throughput microarray ribosomal

• 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

• Thermophilic and mesophilic sulfate reduction by rare biosphere bacteria in acidic metal-bearing mine wastes from the temperate climate zone.

  PMID 41345487 · PMC12739157 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 52

  High in-situ sulfate reduction rates occur in acidic Bom-Gorkhon tailings sediments (up to 9.86 µmol SO4 cm-3 day-1 at 20 °C)

  acidic water sediment tailings radioactive 16s shotgun

• Single-cell analysis of testicular bacterial microbiome changes during aging and effect on reproductive capacity in mice.

  PMID 41438041 · PMC12719757 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  INVADE-seq simultaneously captures host and bacterial transcripts to map bacteria-host interactions across diverse testicular cell types at single-cell resolution

  testes testis young testicular invade-seq histology sperm

• 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

• 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

• On the holobiont 'predictome' of immunocompetence in pigs.

  PMID 37127575 · PMC10150480 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 40

  Holobiont (combined genotype + microbiome) models performed better than partial models (genotype-only or microbiome-only) overall

  duroc fecal plasma serum snp 16s immunoglobulin

• 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