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

• 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

• 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

• RiboTaxa: combined approaches for rRNA genes taxonomic resolution down to the species level from metagenomics data revealing novelties.

  PMID 36159175 · PMC9492272 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 66

  RiboTaxa, combining BBTools, FastQC, SortMeRNA, MetaRib, EMIRGE, VSEARCH, BBMap and QIIME 2's Sklearn classifier, was built as a pipeline for SSU rRNA-based taxonomic profiling of metagenomics data.

  microbial reconstructed synthetic real shotgun ssu full-length

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Contrasting nutrient retention in alpine soils: the role of soil microbiome in phosphorus and nitrogen mobility in scree and meadow environments.

  PMID 41632073 · PMC12883989 · FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Scree soils have high mobile nitrate and phosphate, low phosphate sorption ability, and significantly greater phosphorus leaching despite lower organic matter and microbial biomass

  scree dried fresh thawed situ organic colorimetry

• 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

• Determining virus-host interactions and glycerol metabolism profiles in geographically diverse solar salterns with metagenomics.

  PMID 28097058 · PMC5228507 · PeerJ · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Similar virus-host interactions and glycerol metabolism gene associations (notably dihydroxyacetone kinase with Haloquadratum/Halorubrum) exist across geographically diverse solar salterns

  solar saltern combined individual metagenomic taxonomic functional

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

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

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

  stratified salt nanohaloarchaeota reconstructed 16s metagenomic phylogenomic

• Comparative genomics and understanding of microbial biology.

  PMID 10998382 · PMC2627966 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2000 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  GC content varies widely among prokaryotic genomes (29% in B. burgdorferi to 68% in M. tuberculosis) and shapes codon usage and amino acid composition.

  completed same sequenced mycobacterium whole-genome comparative phylogenomic

• 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

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  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

• Potentially bioavailable iron produced through benthic cycling in glaciated Arctic fjords of Svalbard.

  PMID 33649339 · PMC7921405 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  Benthic biogeochemical cycling in Arctic fjord sediments converts glacially-derived iron into more labile phases, generating up to a 9-fold increase in potentially bioavailable iron with distance from the fjord head

  glacial fjord sediment ascorbate microbial sequential

• 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

• Long-read nanopore shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing for river biodiversity, wildlife, pollution, and environmental health monitoring.

  PMID 42038409 · PMC13107125 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  Long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing of eDNA can simultaneously detect and quantify organismal DNA from viruses to mammals in a single assay

  river edna extracted raw edna concentration quantitative

• Massively parallel pyrosequencing in HIV research.

  PMID 18614863 · PMC4221253 · AIDS (London, England) · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massively parallel pyrosequencing platforms (454/Roche, Solexa/Illumina) enable very high-throughput DNA sequencing, up to ~1 billion bases per run

  mammoth hiv hiv-infected honey pyrosequencing pcr 16s

• 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

• SNP-VISTA: an interactive SNP visualization tool.

  PMID 16336665 · PMC1325058 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  SNP-VISTA is an interactive Java-based visualization tool with two versions, GeneSNP-VISTA and EcoSNP-VISTA, for exploring large-scale SNP datasets

  abo homologous acid snp multi-species blast-based

• 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