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  1. Discordance between changes in the gut microbiota and pathogenicity in a mouse model of spontaneous colitis

    Article • Gut Microbes, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Ruth Ley

  2. Harnessing Microbiota to Kill a Pathogen: The sweet tooth of Clostridium difficile

    Article • Nature Medicine, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  3. Probiotics, prebiotics, and the host microbiome: the science of translation

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, November 2013, Wiley

    Ruth Ley, Patrice D. Cani

  4. Innate and Adaptive Immunity Interact to Quench Microbiome Flagellar Motility in the Gut

    Article • Cell Host & Microbe, November 2013, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  5. The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria

    Article • eLife, October 2013, eLife

    Ruth Ley

  6. Exploring the maize rhizosphere microbiome in the field: A glimpse into a highly complex system

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Ruth Ley

  7. AIEC pathobiont instigates chronic colitis in susceptible hosts by altering microbiota composition

    Article • Gut, July 2013, BMJ

    Ruth Ley

  8. When guests turn hostile

    Article • Nature, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  9. A Guide to Enterotypes across the Human Body: Meta-Analysis of Microbial Community Structures in Human Microbiome Datasets

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2013, PLOS

    Nicola Segata, Ruth Ley

  10. Colitis in TLR5-deficiency Mice: Role of the Microbiota

    Article • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ruth Ley

  11. Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome

    Article • Nature, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley, Dr Susannah Green Tringe

  12. Host Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Changes during Pregnancy

    Article • Cell, August 2012, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  13. Transient Inability to Manage Proteobacteria Promotes Chronic Gut Inflammation in TLR5-Deficient Mice

    Article • Cell Host & Microbe, August 2012, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  14. Responses of Gut Microbiota to Diet Composition and Weight Loss in Lean and Obese Mice

    Article • Obesity, April 2012, Wiley

    Ruth Ley

  15. Branched Chain Fatty Acids Reduce the Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Alter Gastrointestinal Microbial Ecology in a Neonatal Rat Model

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2011, PLOS

    Ruth Ley

  16. The Human Gut Microbiome: Ecology and Recent Evolutionary Changes

    Article • Annual Review of Microbiology, October 2011, Annual Reviews

    Ruth Ley

  17. Impact of training sets on classification of high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA gene surveys

    Article • The ISME Journal, June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ruth Ley

  18. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) promotes susceptibility of Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) deficient mice to colitis

    Article • Gut, June 2011, BMJ

    Ruth Ley

  19. Development of the Human Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Insights From High-Throughput Sequencing

    Article • Gastroenterology, May 2011, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  20. Unravelling the effects of the environment and host genotype on the gut microbiome

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  21. Supervised classification of microbiota mitigates mislabeling errors

    Article • The ISME Journal, October 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ruth Ley

  22. Succession of microbial consortia in the developing infant gut microbiome

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Ruth Ley

  23. Symbiosis research, technology, and education: Proceedings of the 6th International Symbiosis Society Congress held in Madison Wisconsin, USA, August 2009

    Article • Symbiosis, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley, Dr Karen L Visick, Cameron R Currie

  24. 279 Altered Gut Microbiota in Toll-Like Receptor-5 (TLR5) Deficient Mice Results in Metabolic Syndrome

    Article • Gastroenterology, May 2010, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  25. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    Article • Nature Methods, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  26. Metabolic Syndrome and Altered Gut Microbiota in Mice Lacking Toll-Like Receptor 5

    Article • Science, March 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Ruth Ley

  27. Obesity and the human microbiome

    Article • Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, January 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Ruth Ley

  28. Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences

    Article • Genome Biology, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  29. The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010.

    Article • Standards in Genomic Sciences, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley, Dr Nikos C Kyrpides

  30. In Person: Breaking All the Rules

    Article • Science, May 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Ruth Ley

  31. A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

    Article • Nature, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  32. The Human Intestinal Microbiota and Microbiome

    Article • November 2008, Wiley

    Ruth Ley

  33. Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, October 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  34. Innate immunity and intestinal microbiota in the development of Type 1 diabetes

    Article • Nature, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  35. Host-bacterial coevolution and the search for new drug targets

    Article • Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, February 2008, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  36. The Human Microbiome Project

    Article • Nature, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  37. Evolution of Symbiotic Bacteria in the Distal Human Intestine

    Article • PLoS Biology, June 2007, PLOS

    Ruth Ley

  38. The human microbiome: eliminating the biomedical/environmental dichotomy in microbial ecology

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, January 2007, Wiley

    Ruth Ley

  39. Human gut microbes associated with obesity

    Article • Nature, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  40. An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

    Article • Nature, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  41. Reciprocal Gut Microbiota Transplants from Zebrafish and Mice to Germ-free Recipients Reveal Host Habitat Selection

    Article • Cell, October 2006, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley, Dr John F Rawls

  42. The human intestinal microbiota and its relationship to energy balance

    Article • Food & Nutrition Research, June 2006, Co-Action Publishing

    Ruth Ley

  43. Ecological and Evolutionary Forces Shaping Microbial Diversity in the Human Intestine

    Article • Cell, February 2006, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  44. The human intestinal microbiota and its relationship to energy balance

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Food & Nutrition, January 2006, Co-Action Publishing

    Ruth Ley

  45. Soil Microbial Dynamics in Costa Rica: Seasonal and Biogeochemical Constraints

    Article • Biotropica, June 2004, Wiley

    Ruth Ley

  46. Microbial population dynamics in an extreme environment: controlling factors in talus soils at 3750 m in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

    Article • Biogeochemistry, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  47. Soil Microbial Dynamics in Costa Rica: Seasonal and Biogeochemical Constraints1

    Article • Biotropica, January 2004, Association for Tropical Biology

    Ruth Ley

  48. Subfreezing Activity of Microorganisms and the Potential Habitability of Mars' Polar Regions

    Article • Astrobiology, June 2003, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Ruth Ley

  49. Complexity in Natural Microbial Ecosystems: The Guerrero Negro Experience

    Article • Biological Bulletin, April 2003, JSTOR

    Ruth Ley

  50. Fungal and bacterial responses to phenolic compounds and amino acids in high altitude barren soils

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, July 2002, Elsevier

    Ruth Ley

  51. Alteration of Ecosystem Nitrogen Dynamics by Exotic Plants: A Case Study of C 4 Grasses in Hawaii

    Article • Ecological Applications, October 2001, Wiley

    Ruth Ley

  52. ALTERATION OF ECOSYSTEM NITROGEN DYNAMICS BY EXOTIC PLANTS: A CASE STUDY OF C4GRASSES IN HAWAII

    Article • Ecological Applications, October 2001, Wiley

    Ruth Ley

  53. Soil ecological interactions: comparisons between tropical and subalpine forests

    Article • Oecologia, August 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  54. Microbial Biomass Levels in Barren and Vegetated High Altitude Talus Soils

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, January 2001, Soil Science Society of America

    Ruth Ley

  55. Exotic grass invasion alters potential rates of N fixation in Hawaiian woodlands

    Article • Oecologia, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruth Ley

  56. Ruth Ley at the 2011 DOE JGI User Meeting

    Article • SciVee, Inc

    Ruth Ley