Highlighted papers

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HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut

TCA Hitch, JM Masson, C Pauvert, J Bosch, S Nüchtern, NS Treichel, ...

Nature Communications

Lineage-specific microbial protein prediction enables large-scale exploration of protein ecology within the human gut

MA Schmitz, NJ Dimonaco, T Clavel, TCA Hitch

Nature Communications

The infant microbiota hopscotches between community states toward maturation—longitudinal stool parameters and microbiota development in a cohort of European toddlers
E Intze, M Schaubeck, M Pourjam, K Neuhaus, I Lagkouvardos, TCA Hitch, T Clavel

ISME Communications

A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency
Q Lu, TCA Hitch, JY Zhou, M Dwidar, N Sangwan, D Lawrence, LS Nolan, ...

Science

Harmonious naming across nomenclature codes exemplified by the description of bacterial isolates from the mammalian gut

TCA Hitch, D Wylensek, K Bisdorf, EM Buhl, N Treichel, B Abt, ...

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Extension of the Segatella copri complex to 13 species with distinct large extrachromosomal elements and associations with host conditions

A Blanco-Míguez, EJC Gálvez, E Pasolli, F De Filippis, L Amend, ...

Cell host & microbe

M cell maturation and cDC activation determine the onset of adaptive immune priming in the neonatal Peyer’s patch

N Torow, R Li, TCA Hitch, C Mingels, S Al Bounny, N van Best, EL Stange, ...

Immunity

Microbiome-based interventions to modulate gut ecology and the immune system

TCA Hitch, LJ Hall, SK Walsh, GE Leventhal, E Slack, T de Wouters, J Walter,  Clavel
Mucosal Immunology 

Anaerobic single‐cell dispensing facilitates the cultivation of human gut bacteria

A Afrizal, TCA Hitch, A Viehof, N Treichel, T Riedel, B Abt, EM Buhl, ...

Environmental Microbiology 

A taxonomic note on the genus Prevotella: Description of four novel genera and emended description of the genera Hallella and Xylanibacter

TCA Hitch, K Bisdorf, A Afrizal, T Riedel, J Overmann, T Strowig, T Clavel

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities

A Afrizal, SAV Jennings, TCA Hitch, T Riedel, M Basic, A Panyot, ...

Cell Host & Microbe 

Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria

TCA Hitch, T Riedel, A Oren, J Overmann, TD Lawley, T Clavel
ISME Communications

Early-Life Immune System Maturation in Chickens Using a Synthetic Community of Cultured Gut Bacteria

C Zenner, TCA Hitch, T Riedel, E Wortmann, S Tiede, EM Buhl, B Abt, ...
Msystems

Handling of spurious sequences affects the outcome of high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon profiling

S Reitmeier, TCA Hitch, N Treichel, N Fikas, B Hausmann, AE Ramer-Tait, ...
ISME Communications

MiMiC: a bioinformatic approach for generation of synthetic communities from metagenomes

N Kumar, TCA Hitch, D Haller, I Lagkouvardos, T Clavel
Microbial Biotechnology

Sporofaciens musculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from the caecum of an obese mouse

TS Rasmussen, T Streidl, TCA Hitch, E Wortmann, P Deptula, ...
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Recent advances in culture-based gut microbiome research

TCA Hitch, A Afrizal, T Riedel, A Kioukis, D Haller, I Lagkouvardos, ...
International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Upregulation of Anti-Oxidative Stress Response Improves Metabolic Changes in L-Selectin-Deficient Mice but Does Not Prevent NAFLD Progression or Fecal Microbiota Shifts

S Eswaran, A Babbar, HK Drescher, TCA Hitch, T Clavel, M Muschaweck, ...
International journal of molecular sciences

A collection of bacterial isolates from the pig intestine reveals functional and taxonomic diversity

D Wylensek, TCA Hitch, T Riedel, A Afrizal, N Kumar, E Wortmann, T Liu, ... 

Nature communications

High microbiota reactivity of adult human intestinal IgA requires somatic mutations

J Kabbert, J Benckert, T Rollenske, TCA Hitch, T Clavel, V Cerovic, ... 

Journal of Experimental Medicine 

Rumen virus populations: technological advances enhancing current understanding

RA Gilbert, EM Townsend, KS Crew, TCA Hitch, JCA Friedersdorff, ... 

Frontiers in microbiology

Diversity and function of microbial lipases within the mammalian gut

TCA Hitch, JM Masson, T Streidl, T Fischöder, L Elling, T Clavel 

bioRxiv

Sequence and cultivation study of Muribaculaceae reveals novel species, host preference, and functional potential of this yet undescribed family

I Lagkouvardos, TR Lesker, TCA Hitch, EJC Gálvez, N Smit, K Neuhaus, ... 

Microbiome

Comparative metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses reveal the breed effect on the rumen microbiome and its associations with feed efficiency in beef cattle

F Li, TCA Hitch, Y Chen, CJ Creevey 

Microbiome 

The Compromised Mucosal Immune System of β7 Integrin-Deficient Mice Has Only Minor Effects on the Fecal Microbiota in Homeostasis

A Babbar, TCA Hitch, O Pabst, T Clavel, J Hübel, S Eswaran, N Wagner, ... 

Frontiers in microbiology 

A proposed update for the classification and description of bacterial lipolytic enzymes

TCA Hitch, T Clavel 

PeerJ 

Metatranscriptomics reveals mycoviral populations in the ovine rumen

TCA Hitch, JE Edwards, RA Gilbert 

FEMS microbiology letters 

Muribaculum

TCA Hitch, T Clavel 

Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

Spherical: an iterative workflow for assembling metagenomic datasets

TCA Hitch, CJ Creevey 

BMC bioinformatics 

Meta-proteomics of rumen microbiota indicates niche compartmentalisation and functional dominance in a limited number of metabolic pathways between abundant bacteria

EH Hart, CJ Creevey, T Hitch, AH Kingston-Smith 

Scientific reports 

Deep sequence analysis reveals the ovine rumen as a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes

TCA Hitch, BJ Thomas, JCA Friedersdorff, H Ougham, CJ Creevey 

Environmental Pollution