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Techniques used to study microbe gene expression
Metatranscriptomics is the set of techniques used to study gene expression of microbes within natural environments, i.e., the metatranscriptome. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MetatranscriptomicsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Spatial metatranscriptomics resolves host–bacteria–fungi interactomesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Oral microbial communitiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plantsCited 519 times
- Go sideways: Transcriptomics technologiesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MicrobiotaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A branch of transcriptomics that studies, and correlates, the transcriptomes of a group of interacting organisms or species
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants
Use of Metatranscriptomics in Microbiome Research
Metatranscriptomics of the Human Oral Microbiome during Health and Disease
Sizing up metatranscriptomics
Microbial metatranscriptomics in a permanent marine oxygen minimum zone
Comparative metatranscriptomics identifies molecular bases for the physiological responses of phytoplankton to varying iron availability
Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, and Metabolomics Approaches for Microbiome Analysis
Identification of Diverse Mycoviruses through Metatranscriptomics Characterization of the Viromes of Five Major Fungal Plant Pathogens
🆕 Influential since 2022
Spatial metatranscriptomics resolves host–bacteria–fungi interactomes
Understanding human health through metatranscriptomics
Exploring the typical flavours formation by combined with metatranscriptomics and metabolomics during Chinese Sichuan paocai fermentation
Current concepts, advances, and challenges in deciphering the human microbiota with metatranscriptomics
Integrated metatranscriptomics and metabolomics reveal microbial succession and flavor formation mechanisms during the spontaneous fermentation of Laotan Suancai
📚 Books worth reading
Oral microbial communitiesPaul E. Kolenbrander · 2011- 📕Microbial Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, and MetaproteomicsEd DeLong · 2013
High-throughput next generation sequencingYoung Min Kwon, Steven C. Ricke · 2011- 📕Environmental microbiologyIan T. Paulsen, Andrew J. Holmes · 2014
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