9 results on '"Tu, Qichao"'
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2. Continental scale structuring of forest and soil diversity via functional traits
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Buzzard, Vanessa, Michaletz, Sean T, Deng, Ye, He, Zhili, Ning, Daliang, Shen, Lina, Tu, Qichao, Van Nostrand, Joy D, Voordeckers, James W, Wang, Jianjun, Weiser, Michael D, Kaspari, Michael, Waide, Robert B, Zhou, Jizhong, and Enquist, Brian J
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Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation ,Biological Sciences ,Ecology ,Environmental Sciences ,Life on Land ,Biodiversity ,Ecosystem ,Forests ,Nitrogen ,Soil ,Evolutionary biology ,Environmental management - Abstract
Trait-based ecology claims to offer a mechanistic approach for explaining the drivers that structure biological diversity and predicting the responses of species, trophic interactions and ecosystems to environmental change. However, support for this claim is lacking across broad taxonomic groups. A framework for defining ecosystem processes in terms of the functional traits of their constituent taxa across large spatial scales is needed. Here, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the linkages between climate, plant traits and soil microbial traits at many sites spanning a broad latitudinal temperature gradient from tropical to subalpine forests. Our results show that temperature drives coordinated shifts in most plant and soil bacterial traits but these relationships are not observed for most fungal traits. Shifts in plant traits are mechanistically associated with soil bacterial functional traits related to carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycling, indicating that microbial processes are tightly linked to variation in plant traits that influence rates of ecosystem decomposition and nutrient cycling. Our results are consistent with hypotheses that diversity gradients reflect shifts in phenotypic optima signifying local temperature adaptation mediated by soil nutrient availability and metabolism. They underscore the importance of temperature in structuring the functional diversity of plants and soil microbes in forest ecosystems and how this is coupled to biogeochemical processes via functional traits.
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- 2019
3. Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants
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Wu, Linwei, Ning, Daliang, Zhang, Bing, Li, Yong, Zhang, Ping, Shan, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Qiuting, Brown, Mathew Robert, Li, Zhenxin, Van Nostrand, Joy D, Ling, Fangqiong, Xiao, Naijia, Zhang, Ya, Vierheilig, Julia, Wells, George F, Yang, Yunfeng, Deng, Ye, Tu, Qichao, Wang, Aijie, Zhang, Tong, He, Zhili, Keller, Jurg, Nielsen, Per H, Alvarez, Pedro JJ, Criddle, Craig S, Wagner, Michael, Tiedje, James M, He, Qiang, Curtis, Thomas P, Stahl, David A, Alvarez-Cohen, Lisa, Rittmann, Bruce E, Wen, Xianghua, and Zhou, Jizhong
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Microbiology ,Biological Sciences ,Ecology ,Infection ,Bacteria ,Biodiversity ,DNA ,Bacterial ,Geography ,Microbiota ,RNA ,Ribosomal ,16S ,Sequence Analysis ,DNA ,Sewage ,Water Purification ,Global Water Microbiome Consortium ,Medical Microbiology - Abstract
Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for water purification to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and the factors that control it are poorly understood. Using a systematic global-sampling effort, we analysed the 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences from ~1,200 activated sludge samples taken from 269 WWTPs in 23 countries on 6 continents. Our analyses revealed that the global activated sludge bacterial communities contain ~1 billion bacterial phylotypes with a Poisson lognormal diversity distribution. Despite this high diversity, activated sludge has a small, global core bacterial community (n = 28 operational taxonomic units) that is strongly linked to activated sludge performance. Meta-analyses with global datasets associate the activated sludge microbiomes most closely to freshwater populations. In contrast to macroorganism diversity, activated sludge bacterial communities show no latitudinal gradient. Furthermore, their spatial turnover is scale-dependent and appears to be largely driven by stochastic processes (dispersal and drift), although deterministic factors (temperature and organic input) are also important. Our findings enhance our mechanistic understanding of the global diversity and biogeography of activated sludge bacterial communities within a theoretical ecology framework and have important implications for microbial ecology and wastewater treatment processes.
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- 2019
4. Taxonomic and Functional Analyses of the Supragingival Microbiome from Caries-Affected and Caries-Free Hosts
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He, Jinzhi, Tu, Qichao, Ge, Yichen, Qin, Yujia, Cui, Bomiao, Hu, Xiaoyu, Wang, Yuxia, Deng, Ye, Wang, Kun, Van Nostrand, Joy D, Li, Jiyao, Zhou, Jizhong, Li, Yan, and Zhou, Xuedong
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Dental/Oral and Craniofacial Disease ,Infectious Diseases ,Clinical Research ,Good Health and Well Being ,Adult ,Bacteria ,Dental Caries ,Dental Plaque ,Female ,Gingiva ,Humans ,Male ,Microbiota ,Middle Aged ,Caries ,Supragingival dental plaque ,16S rRNA sequencing ,Human microbial functional gene microarray ,Taxonomic composition ,Functional diversity ,Soil Sciences ,Ecology ,Microbiology - Abstract
Caries is one of the most prevalent and costly infectious diseases affecting humans of all ages. It is initiated by cariogenic supragingival dental plaques forming on saliva-coated tooth surfaces, yet the etiology remains elusive. To determine which microbial populations may predispose a patient to caries, we report here an in-depth and comprehensive view of the microbial community associated with supragingival dental plaque collected from the healthy teeth of caries patients and healthy adults. We found that microbial communities from caries patients had a higher evenness and inter-individual variations but simpler ecological networks compared to healthy controls despite the overall taxonomic structure being similar. Genera including Selenomonas, Treponema, Atopobium, and Bergeriella were distributed differently between the caries and healthy groups with disturbed co-occurrence patterns. In addition, caries and healthy subjects carried different Treponema, Atopobium, and Prevotella species. Moreover, distinct populations of 13 function genes involved in organic acid synthesis, glycan biosynthesis, complex carbohydrate degradation, amino acid synthesis and metabolism, purine and pyrimidine metabolism, isoprenoid biosynthesis, lipid metabolism, and co-factor biosynthesis were present in each of the healthy and caries groups. Our results suggested that the fundamental differences in dental plaque ecology partially explained the patients' susceptibility to caries, and could be used for caries risk prediction in the future.
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- 2018
5. Warming enhances old organic carbon decomposition through altering functional microbial communities
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Cheng, Lei, Zhang, Naifang, Yuan, Mengting, Xiao, Jing, Qin, Yujia, Deng, Ye, Tu, Qichao, Xue, Kai, Van Nostrand, Joy D, Wu, Liyou, He, Zhili, Zhou, Xuhui, Leigh, Mary Beth, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T, Schuur, Edward Ag, Luo, Yiqi, Tiedje, James M, and Zhou, Jizhong
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Biological Sciences ,Ecology ,Climate Action ,Bacteria ,Carbon ,Climate Change ,Hot Temperature ,Metagenomics ,Soil ,Soil Microbiology ,Environmental Sciences ,Technology ,Microbiology ,Biological sciences ,Environmental sciences - Abstract
Soil organic matter (SOM) stocks contain nearly three times as much carbon (C) as the atmosphere and changes in soil C stocks may have a major impact on future atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and climate. Over the past two decades, much research has been devoted to examining the influence of warming on SOM decomposition in topsoil. Most SOM, however, is old and stored in subsoil. The fate of subsoil SOM under future warming remains highly uncertain. Here, by combining a long-term field warming experiment and a meta-analysis study, we showed that warming significantly increased SOM decomposition in subsoil. We also showed that a decade of warming promoted decomposition of subsoil SOM with turnover times of decades to millennia in a tall grass prairie and this effect was largely associated with shifts in the functional gene structure of microbial communities. By coupling stable isotope probing with metagenomics, we found that microbial communities in warmed soils possessed a higher relative abundance of key functional genes involved in the degradation of organic materials with varying recalcitrance than those in control soils. These findings suggest warming may considerably alter the stability of the vast pool of old SOM in subsoil, contributing to the long-term positive feedback between the C cycle and climate.
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- 2017
6. Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America
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Tu, Qichao, Deng, Ye, Yan, Qingyun, Shen, Lina, Lin, Lu, He, Zhili, Wu, Liyou, Van Nostrand, Joy D, Buzzard, Vanessa, Michaletz, Sean T, Enquist, Brian J, Weiser, Michael D, Kaspari, Michael, Waide, Robert B, Brown, James H, and Zhou, Jizhong
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Microbiology ,Biological Sciences ,Ecology ,Life Below Water ,Bacteria ,Biodiversity ,Carbon ,Forests ,Genes ,Bacterial ,Nitrogen ,North America ,Rainforest ,Soil ,Soil Microbiology ,biogeography ,diversity gradients ,nifH ,soil diazotrophs ,taxa-area relationship ,Evolutionary Biology ,Biological sciences - Abstract
Soil diazotrophs play important roles in ecosystem functioning by converting atmospheric N2 into biologically available ammonium. However, the diversity and distribution of soil diazotrophic communities in different forests and whether they follow biogeographic patterns similar to macroorganisms still remain unclear. By sequencing nifH gene amplicons, we surveyed the diversity, structure and biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six North American forests (126 nested samples). Our results showed that each forest harboured markedly different soil diazotrophic communities and that these communities followed traditional biogeographic patterns similar to plant and animal communities, including the taxa-area relationship (TAR) and latitudinal diversity gradient. Significantly higher community diversity and lower microbial spatial turnover rates (i.e. z-values) were found for rainforests (~0.06) than temperate forests (~0.1). The gradient pattern of TARs and community diversity was strongly correlated (r(2) > 0.5) with latitude, annual mean temperature, plant species richness and precipitation, and weakly correlated (r(2)
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- 2016
7. Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants
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Wu, Linwei, Ning, Daliang, Zhang, Bing, Li, Yong, Zhang, Ping, Shan, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Qiuting, Brown, Mathew, Li, Zhenxin, Van Nostrand, Joy D., Ling, Fangqiong, Xiao, Naijia, Zhang, Ya, Vierheilig, Julia, Wells, George F., Yang, Yunfeng, Deng, Ye, Tu, Qichao, Wang, Aijie, Zhang, Tong, He, Zhili, Keller, Jurg, Nielsen, Per H., Alvarez, Pedro J.J., Criddle, Craig S., Wagner, Michael, Tiedje, James M., He, Qiang, Curtis, Thomas P., Stahl, David A., Alvarez-Cohen, Lisa, Rittmann, Bruce E., Wen, Xianghua, Zhou, Jizhong, Acevedo, Dany, Agullo-Barcelo, Miriam, Andersen, Gary L., de Araujo, Juliana Calabria, Boehnke, Kevin, Bond, Philip, Bott, Charles B., Bovio, Patricia, Brewster, Rebecca K., Bux, Faizal, Cabezas, Angela, Cabrol, Léa, Chen, Si, Etchebehere, Claudia, Ford, Amanda, Frigon, Dominic, Gómez, Janeth Sanabria, Griffin, James S., Gu, April Z., Habagil, Moshe, Hale, Lauren, Hardeman, Steven D., Harmon, Marc, Horn, Harald, Hu, Zhiqiang, Jauffur, Shameem, Johnson, David R., Keucken, Alexander, Kumari, Sheena, Leal, Cintia Dutra, Lebrun, Laura A., Lee, Jangho, Lee, Minjoo, Lee, Zarraz M.P., Li, Mengyan, Li, Xu, Liu, Yu, Luthy, Richard G., Mendonça-Hagler, Leda C., de Menezes, Francisca Gleire Rodriguez, Meyers, Arthur J., Mohebbi, Amin, Oehmen, Adrian, Palmer, Andrew, Parameswaran, Prathap, Park, Joonhong, Patsch, Deborah, Reginatto, Valeria, de los Reyes, Francis L., Noyola, Adalberto, Rossetti, Simona, Sidhu, Jatinder, Sloan, William T., Smith, Kylie, de Sousa, Oscarina Viana, Stephens, Kyle, Tian, Renmao, Tooker, Nicholas B., De los Cobos Vasconcelos, Daniel, Wakelin, Steve, Wang, Bei, Weaver, Joseph E., West, Stephanie, Wilmes, Paul, Woo, Sung Geun, Wu, Jer Horng, University of Oklahoma (OU), Tsinghua University [Beijing] (THU), College of Resource and Environment Southwest University, Newcastle University [Newcastle], Northeastern Normal University, Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), University of Vienna [Vienna], Northwestern University [Evanston], Shandong University, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Sun Yat-Sen University [Guangzhou] (SYSU), University of Queensland [Brisbane], Aalborg University [Denmark] (AAU), Rice University [Houston], Stanford University, Michigan State University System, The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], University of Washington [Seattle], University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), University of California [Berkeley], and University of California
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[SDV.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology ,Biodiversity ,microbiome ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Global Water Microbiome Consortium ,Wastewater treatment plants ,RNA, Ribosomal, 16S ,activated sludge ,0303 health sciences ,Geography ,Sewage ,Ecology ,[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering ,Microbiota ,Bacterial ,6. Clean water ,Wastewater ,Medical Microbiology ,Sewage treatment ,Infection ,Sequence Analysis ,Microbiology (medical) ,DNA, Bacterial ,16S ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,Immunology ,BACTÉRIAS ,Theoretical ecology ,Microbiology ,Water Purification ,03 medical and health sciences ,Microbial ecology ,Genetics ,14. Life underwater ,030304 developmental biology ,Ribosomal ,Bacteria ,030306 microbiology ,Species diversity ,Cell Biology ,DNA ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,bacterial communities ,[SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology ,Activated sludge ,13. Climate action ,Biological dispersal ,RNA ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology - Abstract
International audience; Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for water purification to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and the factors that control it are poorly understood. Using a systematic global-sampling effort, we analysed the 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences from ~1,200 activated sludge samples taken from 269 WWTPs in 23 countries on 6 continents. Our analyses revealed that the global activated sludge bacterial communities contain ~1 billion bacterial phylotypes with a Poisson lognormal diversity distribution. Despite this high diversity, activated sludge has a small, global core bacterial community (n = 28 operational taxonomic units) that is strongly linked to activated sludge performance. Meta-analyses with global datasets associate the activated sludge microbiomes most closely to freshwater populations. In contrast to macroorganism diversity, activated sludge bacterial communities show no latitudinal gradient. Furthermore, their spatial turnover is scale-dependent and appears to be largely driven by stochastic processes (dispersal and drift), although deterministic factors (temperature and organic input) are also important. Our findings enhance our mechanistic understanding of the global diversity and biogeography of activated sludge bacterial communities within a theoretical ecology framework and have important implications for microbial ecology and wastewater treatment processes.
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- 2018
8. Development of HuMiChip for Functional Profiling of Human Microbiomes.
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Tu, Qichao, He, Zhili, Li, Yan, Chen, Yanfei, Deng, Ye, Lin, Lu, Hemme, Christopher L., Yuan, Tong, Van Nostrand, Joy D., Wu, Liyou, Zhou, Xuedong, Shi, Wenyuan, Li, Lanjuan, Xu, Jian, and Zhou, Jizhong
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HUMAN microbiota , *MICROBIAL diversity , *FUNCTIONAL genomics , *GENETIC code , *BIOREMEDIATION , *GUT microbiome , *ORAL microbiology - Abstract
Understanding the diversity, composition, structure, function, and dynamics of human microbiomes in individual human hosts is crucial to reveal human-microbial interactions, especially for patients with microbially mediated disorders, but challenging due to the high diversity of the human microbiome. Here we have developed a functional gene-based microarray for profiling human microbiomes (HuMiChip) with 36,802 probes targeting 50,007 protein coding sequences for 139 key functional gene families. Computational evaluation suggested all probes included are highly specific to their target sequences. HuMiChip was used to analyze human oral and gut microbiomes, showing significantly different functional gene profiles between oral and gut microbiome. Obvious shifts of microbial functional structure and composition were observed for both patients with dental caries and periodontitis from moderate to advanced stages, suggesting a progressive change of microbial communities in response to the diseases. Consistent gene family profiles were observed by both HuMiChip and next generation sequencing technologies. Additionally, HuMiChip was able to detect gene families at as low as 0.001% relative abundance. The results indicate that the developed HuMiChip is a useful and effective tool for functional profiling of human microbiomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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9. Saliva Microbiota Carry Caries-Specific Functional Gene Signatures.
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Yang, Fang, Ning, Kang, Chang, Xingzhi, Yuan, Xiao, Tu, Qichao, Yuan, Tong, Deng, Ye, Hemme, Christopher L., Van Nostrand, Joy, Cui, Xinping, He, Zhili, Chen, Zhenggang, Guo, Dawei, Yu, Jiangbo, Zhang, Yue, Zhou, Jizhong, and Xu, Jian
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SALIVA microbiology ,PHYLOGENY ,MOLECULAR structure ,COMPUTATIONAL biology ,FUNCTIONAL genomics ,BIOTIC communities ,COMMUNICABLE diseases - Abstract
Human saliva microbiota is phylogenetically divergent among host individuals yet their roles in health and disease are poorly appreciated. We employed a microbial functional gene microarray, HuMiChip 1.0, to reconstruct the global functional profiles of human saliva microbiota from ten healthy and ten caries-active adults. Saliva microbiota in the pilot population featured a vast diversity of functional genes. No significant distinction in gene number or diversity indices was observed between healthy and caries-active microbiota. However, co-presence network analysis of functional genes revealed that caries-active microbiota was more divergent in non-core genes than healthy microbiota, despite both groups exhibited a similar degree of conservation at their respective core genes. Furthermore, functional gene structure of saliva microbiota could potentially distinguish caries-active patients from healthy hosts. Microbial functions such as Diaminopimelate epimerase, Prephenate dehydrogenase, Pyruvate-formate lyase and N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase were significantly linked to caries. Therefore, saliva microbiota carried disease-associated functional signatures, which could be potentially exploited for caries diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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