Andrew K. Benson

Catabolite repression and virulence gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes.

Individuality in gut microbiota composition is a complex polygenic trait shaped by multiple environmental and host genetic factors.

A grammar-based distance metric enables fast and accurate clustering of large sets of 16S sequences.

Drosophila melanogaster Selection for Survival of Bacillus cereus Infection: Life History Trait Indirect Responses.

Drosophila melanogaster Selection for Survival after Infection with Bacillus cereus Spores: Evolutionary Genetic and Phenotypic Investigations of Respiration and Movement.

Molecular evolution of glycoside hydrolase genes in the Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera).

Microbial successions are associated with changes in chemical profiles of a model refrigerated fresh pork sausage during an 80-day shelf life study.

Host genetic architecture and the landscape of microbiome composition: humans weigh in.

Alignment behaviors of short peptides provide a roadmap for functional profiling of metagenomic data.

Molecular characterization of the intestinal microbiota in patients with and without abdominal bloating.

A real-time PCR assay for accurate quantification of the individual members of the Altered Schaedler Flora microbiota in gnotobiotic mice.

A gut pathobiont synergizes with the microbiota to instigate inflammatory disease marked by immunoreactivity against other symbionts but not itself.

Experimental evaluation of the importance of colonization history in early-life gut microbiota assembly.

Commensal Strains Can Promote Intestinal Inflammation via Differential Interleukin-6 Production.

Microbial Community of Saline, Alkaline Lakes in the Nebraska Sandhills Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequence Data.

Sex Bias in Gut Microbiome Transmission in Newly Paired Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).

Stearidonic-Enriched Soybean Oil Modulates Obesity, Glucose Metabolism, and Fatty Acid Profiles Independently of Akkermansia muciniphila.

Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acid Concentrations Increase in Newly Paired Male Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).

ProkEvo: an automated, reproducible, and scalable framework for high-throughput bacterial population genomics analyses.

Captive Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) Are Colonized throughout Their Lives by a Community of Species with Species-Specific Genomic Content That Can Support Adaptation to Distinct Metabolic Niches.