Publications of JL Waters

Akbuğa-Schön, T.; Suzuki, T.; Jakob, D.; Vu, D.; Waters, J.; Ley, R.: The keystone gut species Christensenella minuta boosts gut microbial biomass and voluntary physical activity in mice. mBio 15 (2), e0283623 (2024)

Welter, D.; Ruaud, A.; Henseler, Z.; De Jong, H.; van Coeverden de Groot, P.; Michaux, J.; Gormezano, L.; Waters, J.; Youngblut, N.; Ley, R.: Free-living psychrophilic bacteria of the genus Psychrobacter are descendants of pathobionts. mSystems (accepted)

Heaver, S.; He, H.; Tang, P.; Baslé, A.; Barone, C.; Vu, D.; Waters, J.; Marles-Wright, J.; Johnson, E.; Campopiano, D. et al.; Ley, R.: Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes. Nature Microbiology 7 (7), pp. 986 - 1000 (2022)

Di Rienzi, S.; Johnson, E.; Waters, J.; Kennedy, E.; Jacobson, J.; Lawrence, P.; Wang, D.; Worgall, T.; Brenna, J.; Ley, R.: The microbiome affects liver sphingolipids and plasma fatty acids in a murine model of the Western diet based on soybean oil. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 97, 108808 (2021)

Liu, X.; Sutter, J.; de la Cuesta-Zuluaga, J.; Waters, J.; Youngblut, N.; Ley, R.: Reclassification of Catabacter hongkongensis as Christensenella hongkongensis comb. nov. based on whole genome analysis. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 71 (4), 004774 (2021)

Welter, D.; Ruaud, A.; Henseler, Z.; De Jong, H.; van Coeverden de Groot, P.; Michaux, J.; Gormezano, L.; Waters, J.; Youngblut, N.; Ley, R.: Free-Living, Psychrotrophic Bacteria of the Genus Psychrobacter Are Descendants of Pathobionts. mSystems 6 (2), e00258-21 (2021)

Johnson, E.; Heaver, S.; Waters, J.; Kim, B.; Bretin, A.; Goodman, A.; Gewirtz, A.; Worgall, T.; Ley, R.: Sphingolipids produced by gut bacteria enter host metabolic pathways impacting ceramide levels. Nature Communications 11, 2471 (2020)

Ruaud, A.; Esquivel-Elizondo, S.; de la Cuesta-Zuluaga, J.; Waters, J.; Angenent, L.; Youngblut, N.; Ley, R.: Syntrophy via Interspecies H2 Transfer between Christensenella and Methanobrevibacter Underlies Their Global Cooccurrence in the Human Gut. mBio 11 (1), e03235-19 (2020)

Janzon, A.; Goodrich, J.; Koren, O.; TEDDY Study Group; Waters, J.; Ley, R.: Interactions between the Gut Microbiome and Mucosal Immunoglobulins A, M, and G in the Developing Infant Gut. mSystems 4 (6), e00612-19 (2019)

Waters, J.; Ley, R.: The human gut bacteria Christensenellaceae are widespread, heritable, and associated with health. BMC Biology 17, 83 (2019)

Poole, A.; Goodrich, J.; Youngblut, N.; Luque, G.; Ruaud, A.; Sutter, J.; Waters, J.; Shi, Q.; El-Hadidi, M.; Johnson, L. et al.; Bar, H.; Huson, D.; Booth, J.; Ley, R.: Human Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number Impacts Oral and Gut Microbiomes. Cell Host & Microbe 25 (4), pp. 553 - 564 (2019)

Di Rienzi, S.; Jacobson, J.; Kennedy, E.; Bell, M.; Shi, Q.; Waters, J.; Lawrence, P.; Brenna, J.; Britton, R.; Walter, J. et al.; Ley, R.: Resilience of small intestinal beneficial bacteria to the toxicity of soybean oil fatty acids. eLife 7, e32581 (2018)

Goodrich, J.; Davenport, E.; Waters, J.; Clark, A.; Ley, R.: Cross-species comparisons of host genetic associations with the microbiome. Science 352 (6285), pp. 532 - 535 (2016)

Goodrich, J.; Waters, J.; Poole, A.; Sutter, J.; Koren, O.; Blekhman, R.; Beaumont, M.; van Treuren, W.; Knight, R.; Bell, J. et al.; Spector, T.; Clark, A.; Ley, R.: Human genetics shape the gut microbiome. Cell 159 (4), pp. 789 - 799 (2014)

Suzuki, T.; Schön, T.; Waters, J.; Ballinger, M.; Ley, R.: Artificial selection experiment on the mammalian microbiome. In Evolution 2023, 321. Evolution 2023: Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society of Systematic Biologists, Albuquerque, NM, USA, June 21, 2023 - June 25, 2023. (2023)

Schön, T.; Ley, R.; Waters, J.: The Gut Microbe Christensenella minuta Increases Host Activity. World Microbe Forum 2021 (2021)

Suzuki, T.; Akbuğa-Schön, T.; Waters, J.; Jakob, D.; Vu, D.; Ballinger, M.; Di Rienzi, S.; Chang, H.; de Araujo, I.; Tyakht, A. et al.; Ley, R.: Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone shifts mammalian behavior. (submitted)