ReviewFEMS microbiology reviews2018
From hairballs to hypotheses-biological insights from microbial networks.
Review in FEMS microbiology reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 281 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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281 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Meta-analysis of microbiome association networks reveal patterns of dysbiosis in diseased microbiomes.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
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- Advances in causal discovery methods for ecological time series.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
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- Building-Scale Wastewater Metagenomics Reveals Temporal Patterns in Resistance and Virulence Genes.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Habitat Heterogeneity Drives Intertidal Macrobenthic Community Differentiation via Environmental Filtering, Species Turnover, and Ecological Network Reorganization.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Salinity and ionic composition drive prokaryotic community assembly in Tuolekule Lake, China.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2026Article
- Bacterial Community Dynamics and Ecological Characteristics in Temporary Holding Water of Live Seafood Tanks.Biology · 2026Article
- Soil texture mediates microbial assembly and network organization under moisture stress.Research square · 2026Article
- Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Beyond detection: unveiling microbial dynamics in oak seedlings using fungal isolation and amplicon sequencing.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Effects of Oral Administration of Goat Rumen-Derived Bacterial Isolates on In Vitro and In Vivo Rumen Fermentation Characteristics.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Stage-dependent environmental filtering and microbial community reassembly in a full-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB)-two-stage anoxic/oxic (A/O) landfill leachate treatment system.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Article
- Effects of ginger on microbial succession and flavor formation during Zao Chili fermentation.Food chemistry: X · 2026Article
- Physiological and Skin Microbiome Divergence Among Closely Related Anurans Co-Occurring in Agricultural Wetlands.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Competitive exclusion modulates broiler microbiota structure and microbial interaction networks.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Phage-mediated expansion of the virulence gene types and enhanced ecological integration of pathogens in wild mice from human-impacted environments.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Article
- Pathogenicity of Cadophora luteo-olivacea on Quercus robur and multi-omics characterization of antagonism by Trichoderma atroviride.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Evaluating microbial network inference methods: moving beyond synthetic data with reproducibility-driven benchmarks.BMC bioinformatics · 2026Article
221 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Microbial networks are an increasingly popular tool to investigate microbial community structure, as they integrate multiple types of information and may represent systems-level behaviour. Interpreting these networks is not straightforward, and the biological implications of network properties are unclear. Analysis of microbial networks allows researchers to predict hub species and species interactions. Additionally, such analyses can help identify alternative community states and niches. Here, we review factors that can result in spurious predictions and address emergent properties that may be meaningful in the context of the microbiome. We also give an overview of studies that analyse microbial networks to identify new hypotheses. Moreover, we show in a simulation how network properties are affected by tool choice and environmental factors. For example, hub species are not consistent across tools, and environmental heterogeneity induces modularity. We highlight the need for robust microbial network inference and suggest strategies to infer networks more reliably.
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