Yuanqiang Zou

This study uses complete genomes to model gut microbiome metabolic interactions, revealing ecological group dynamics linked to inflammatory bowel disease and improving disease diagnosis.

This study identifies Bacteroides species as potential contributors to depression through metagenomic analysis of fecal samples, showing their association with nitric oxide synthesis and diagnostic accuracy.

The paper analyzes complete genomes of Lactobacillaceae and Bifidobacteriaceae strains to reveal strain-specific metabolic interactions in the Chinese gut microbiota.

The paper identifies a novel Cas12a variant, BvCas12a, with high specificity and engineers variants with broader PAM compatibility and improved editing efficiency.

The paper presents a comprehensive compendium of fully circularized human gut bacterial genomes and reveals how mobile genetic elements drive functional diversity with therapeutic implications.

The paper identifies conjugative megaplasmids in the human gut microbiome that can disseminate prophage genomes across bacterial lineages, explaining their wide distribution.

The paper identifies Jug phages as prevalent in human and animal gut microbiomes, showing high transcription activity and potential ecological significance.

The paper evaluates CycloneSEQ long-read sequencing for improving bacterial genome assemblies, showing it can produce complete circular genomes when combined with short-read data.

This study uses Mendelian randomization to identify causal relationships between gut microbiome composition and blood metabolites in a Chinese cohort.

This study identifies genetic loci associated with the oral microbiome using metagenome-genome-wide association studies in over 1,915 individuals.

The paper expands the gene catalog of mouse gut metagenomes by integrating new samples and genomes, increasing gene count and improving taxonomic and functional annotations.