2023
mbQTL: an R/Bioconductor package for microbial quantitative trait loci (QTL) estimation
Movassagh M, Schiff S, Paulson J. mbQTL: an R/Bioconductor package for microbial quantitative trait loci (QTL) estimation. Bioinformatics 2023, 39: btad565. PMID: 37707523, PMCID: PMC10516520, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad565.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle nucleotide variationsRNA sequencingMicrobial abundance dataQuantitative trait lociSingle nucleotide polymorphism dataRibosomal RNA sequencingField of genomicsWhole-genome sequencingEvidence of interplayMutational profileTrait lociMicrobial communitiesMicrobial abundancePolymorphism dataMicrobial populationsGenome sequencingAbundance dataFirst R packageHuman geneticsBioconductor packageGenetic variantsMicrobiome dataSequencingR packageAbundance
2022
Disentangling the genetic basis of rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato
Oyserman B, Flores S, Griffioen T, Pan X, van der Wijk E, Pronk L, Lokhorst W, Nurfikari A, Paulson J, Movassagh M, Stopnisek N, Kupczok A, Cordovez V, Carrión V, Ligterink W, Snoek B, Medema M, Raaijmakers J. Disentangling the genetic basis of rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato. Nature Communications 2022, 13: 3228. PMID: 35710629, PMCID: PMC9203511, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30849-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMicrobiome assemblyGenetic basisRhizosphere microbiome assemblyMetagenome-assembled genomesGene content analysisQuantitative trait lociDomestication sweepsDomesticated tomatoRhizosphere microbiomePutative plantPlant geneticsTrait lociBacterial genesPlant growthHybrid populationsQuantitative traitsBreeding programsMbp regionGenetic variation associatesPlant polysaccharidesDifferential recruitmentTomatoStreptomycesTraitsPivotal role