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  1. A molecular timescale for evolution of cobamide biosynthesis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Xun Qian

  2. Environmental and soil attributes driving soil microbiomes

    Article • mLife, March 2024, Tsinghua University Press

    Xun Qian, Gupta Vadakattu

  3. Global airborne bacterial community—interactions with Earth’s microbiomes and anthropogenic activities

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Xun Qian

  4. Long-read sequencing revealed cooccurrence, host range, and potential mobility of antibiotic resistome in cow feces

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Xun Qian, Prof. Xun Qian

  5. Metagenomic Insights into the Degradation of Resistant Starch by Human Gut Microbiota

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2018, ASM Journals

    Xun Qian

  6. Divergence in Gene Regulation Contributes to Sympatric Speciation of Shewanella baltica Strains

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2017, ASM Journals

    Xun Qian

  7. Microbial Community Analysis with Ribosomal Gene Fragments from Shotgun Metagenomes

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2015, ASM Journals

    Xun Qian

  8. Evaluation of the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine for Gene-Targeted Studies Using Amplicons of the Nitrogenase GenenifH

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2015, ASM Journals

    Xun Qian

  9. Shifts of tundra bacterial and archaeal communities along a permafrost thaw gradient in Alaska

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2014, Wiley

    Xun Qian, Kai Xue

  10. Revealing the Bacterial Butyrate Synthesis Pathways by Analyzing (Meta)genomic Data

    Article • mBio, April 2014, ASM Journals

    Xun Qian

  11. Ecological Patterns of nifH Genes in Four Terrestrial Climatic Zones Explored with Targeted Metagenomics Using FrameBot, a New Informatics Tool

    Article • mBio, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Xun Qian

  12. Probing the Functional Diversity of Global Pristine Soil Communities with 3-Chlorobenzoate Reveals that Communities of Generalists Dominate Catabolic Transformation

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2013, ASM Journals

    Xun Qian