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| Noah FiererSummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Country: USA Publications
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Toward an ecological classification of soil bacteriaNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Ecology 88:1354-64. 2007....
Forensic identification using skin bacterial communitiesNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:6477-81. 2010....- Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributesNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:21390-5. 2012.... 
The generation and maintenance of diversity in microbial communitiesNoah Fierer
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, UCB 216, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Am J Bot 98:439-48. 2011..Furthermore, knowledge from microbial systems may provide insight into the mechanisms that generate and maintain species richness in nonmicrobial systems...- Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradientsNoah Fierer
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
ISME J 6:1007-17. 2012.... - Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communitiesNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Ecology 88:2162-73. 2007..Together these results suggest that microorganisms, like "macro"-organisms, do exhibit biogeographical patterns at the landscape scale and that these patterns may be predictable based on biogeochemical factors... - Global patterns in belowground communitiesNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Ecol Lett 12:1238-49. 2009..Together these results identify robust patterns in the structure of belowground microbial and faunal communities at broad scales which may be explained by universal mechanisms that regulate belowground biota across biomes... - The biogeography of ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in soilNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Microb Ecol 58:435-45. 2009..Given that distinct AOB taxa are likely to have unique functional attributes, the biogeographical patterns exhibited by soil AOB may be directly relevant to understanding soil nitrogen dynamics under changing environmental conditions... - Changes through time: integrating microorganisms into the study of successionNoah Fierer
Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Res Microbiol 161:635-42. 2010.... - The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteriaNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, UCB 334, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:17994-9. 2008.... - Metagenomic and small-subunit rRNA analyses reveal the genetic diversity of bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses in soilNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 0216, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:7059-66. 2007..Within each of the four microbial groups, we observed minimal taxonomic overlap between sites, suggesting that soil archaea, bacteria, fungi, and viruses are globally as well as locally diverse... - Short-term temporal variability in airborne bacterial and fungal populationsNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, 216 UCB, CIRES, Boulder, CO 80309 0216, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:200-7. 2008..These results suggest that outdoor air may harbor similar types of bacteria regardless of location and that the short-term temporal variability in airborne bacterial assemblages can be very large... - Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animalsNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Ecology 92:797-804. 2011.... - Characterization of airborne microbial communities at a high-elevation site and their potential to act as atmospheric ice nucleiRobert M Bowers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:5121-30. 2009..However, these changes in ice nuclei numbers were not associated with changes in the relative abundances of the most commonly studied ice-nucleating bacteria... - Bacterial community variation in human body habitats across space and timeElizabeth K Costello
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Science 326:1694-7. 2009..These results indicate that our microbiota, although personalized, varies systematically across body habitats and time; such trends may ultimately reveal how microbiome changes cause or prevent disease... - Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxaDiana R Nemergut
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Environ Microbiol 13:135-44. 2011.... - The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cyclingDiana R Nemergut
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Environ Microbiol 10:3093-105. 2008..These results suggest that chronic N fertilization induces significant shifts in soil carbon dynamics that correspond to shifts in microbial community structure and function... - Pyrosequencing-based assessment of soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the continental scaleChristian L Lauber
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:5111-20. 2009.... - A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analysesRyan T Jones
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
ISME J 3:442-53. 2009.... - Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soilScott T Bates
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
ISME J 5:908-17. 2011..This trend was coupled with a concurrent increase in known N-oxidizing bacteria, suggesting competitive interactions between these groups... - Effect of storage conditions on the assessment of bacterial community structure in soil and human-associated samplesChristian L Lauber
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0216, USA
FEMS Microbiol Lett 307:80-6. 2010..These results suggest that many samples collected and stored under field conditions without refrigeration may be useful for microbial community analyses... - Consistent effects of nitrogen fertilization on soil bacterial communities in contrasting systemsKelly S Ramirez
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Ecology 91:3463-70; discussion 3503-14. 2010.... - The ecology of the phyllosphere: geographic and phylogenetic variability in the distribution of bacteria on tree leavesAmanda J Redford
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Environ Microbiol 12:2885-93. 2010..ponderosa needles... - Moving pictures of the human microbiomeJ Gregory Caporaso
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Genome Biol 12:R50. 2011..Here, we present the largest human microbiota time series analysis to date, covering two individuals at four body sites over 396 timepoints... - Sources of bacteria in outdoor air across cities in the midwestern United StatesRobert M Bowers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:6350-6. 2011..Airborne bacteria are clearly an important, but understudied, component of air quality that needs to be better integrated into efforts to measure and model pollutants in the atmosphere... - PrimerProspector: de novo design and taxonomic analysis of barcoded polymerase chain reaction primersWilliam A Walters
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Bioinformatics 27:1159-61. 2011..PCR amplification of DNA is a key preliminary step in many applications of high-throughput sequencing technologies, yet design of novel barcoded primers and taxonomic analysis of novel or existing primers remains a challenging task... - Microbial community resemblance methods differ in their ability to detect biologically relevant patternsJustin Kuczynski
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Nat Methods 7:813-9. 2010..These results also provide a basis for understanding tradeoffs between number of samples and depth of coverage, tradeoffs that are important to consider when designing studies to characterize microbial communities... - Spatial variability in airborne bacterial communities across land-use types and their relationship to the bacterial communities of potential source environmentsRobert M Bowers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0216, USA
ISME J 5:601-12. 2011..This work furthers our understanding of bacterial diversity in the atmosphere, the terrestrial controls on this diversity and potential approaches for source tracking of airborne bacteria... - Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differencesJustin Kuczynski
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Genome Biol 11:210. 2010.... - A direct PCR approach to accelerate analyses of human-associated microbial communitiesGilberto E Flores
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e44563. 2012.... - Co-habiting amphibian species harbor unique skin bacterial communities in wild populationsValerie J McKenzie
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0334, USA
ISME J 6:588-96. 2012..In light of recent discoveries that some bacteria on amphibian skin have antifungal activity, our finding suggests that host-specific bacteria may have a role in the species-specific resistance to fungal pathogens... - SitePainter: a tool for exploring biogeographical patternsAntonio Gonzalez
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Bioinformatics 28:436-8. 2012..AVAILABILITY: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sitepainter SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. CONTACT: antoniog@colorado.edu, Rob.Knight@colorado.edu... - Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sampleJ Gregory Caporaso
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:4516-22. 2011..The results thus open up the possibility of conducting large-scale studies analyzing thousands of samples simultaneously to survey microbial communities at an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution... - Diversity, distribution and sources of bacteria in residential kitchensGilberto E Flores
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Environ Microbiol 15:588-96. 2013..These results also illustrate the ease with which human- and food-associated bacteria can be transferred in residential settings to kitchen surfaces... - Microbial biogeography of public restroom surfacesGilberto E Flores
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e28132. 2011.... - Cohabiting family members share microbiota with one another and with their dogsSe Jin Song
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States
elife 2:e00458. 2013..DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00458.001... - Bacterial succession on the leaf surface: a novel system for studying successional dynamicsAmanda J Redford
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Microb Ecol 58:189-98. 2009.... - Bacterial communities associated with the lichen symbiosisScott T Bates
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Rm 318, CIRES Bldg, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:1309-14. 2011..Our findings confirm the presence of highly structured bacterial communities within lichens and provide additional evidence that these bacteria may serve distinct functional roles within lichen symbioses... - Bacterial communities of two parthenogenetic aphid species cocolonizing two host plants across the Hawaiian IslandsRyan T Jones
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:8345-9. 2011..caladii. The bacterial communities also differed across aphid populations sampled from the different islands; however, communities did not differ between aphids collected from the two host plants... - Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soilScott T Bates
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
ISME J 7:652-9. 2013..However, soil protistan and bacterial communities exhibit very different global-scale biogeographical patterns, with protistan communities strongly structured by climatic conditions that regulate annual soil moisture availability... - Bacterial communities associated with the surfaces of fresh fruits and vegetablesJonathan W Leff
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
PLoS ONE 8:e59310. 2013.... - Unlocking the potential of metagenomics through replicated experimental designRob Knight
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Nat Biotechnol 30:513-20. 2012..Improvements in comparability of data will facilitate the study of biotechnologically relevant processes, such as bioprospecting for new glycoside hydrolases or identifying novel energy sources... - Microbial nitrogen limitation increases decompositionJoseph M Craine
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecology 88:2105-13. 2007.... - Tilting at windmills: a response to a recent critique of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism dataNoah Fierer
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:8041; author reply 8041-2. 2007 - Assessment of soil microbial community structure by use of taxon-specific quantitative PCR assaysNoah Fierer
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:4117-20. 2005..Primers were thoroughly tested for specificity, and the method was applied to three distinct soils. The technique provides a rapid and robust index of microbial community structure... - The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communitiesNoah Fierer
Department of Biology and Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:626-31. 2006..Our results suggest that microbial biogeography is controlled primarily by edaphic variables and differs fundamentally from the biogeography of "macro" organisms...