X.-W. Wang

A New Feature of the Laboratory Model Plant Nicotiana benthamiana: Dead-End Trap for Sustainable Field Pest Control

This study demonstrates that Nicotiana benthamiana can act as a sustainable dead-end trap for controlling Hemiptera and Thysanoptera pests in agricultural fields.

Data-driven prediction of colonization outcomes for complex microbial communities

The paper predicts colonization outcomes of exogenous microbes in complex communities using a data-driven approach, validated with synthetic data and experimental tests.

Cyanobacteria using urea as a nitrogen source can overcome acid stress

This study shows that marine cyanobacteria using urea as a nitrogen source can better adapt to acid stress, with urease playing a key role in this adaptation.

Identifying keystone species in microbial communities using deep learning

This paper introduces a deep learning framework to identify keystone species in microbial communities using synthetic and real microbiome data, finding taxa with high keystoneness show community specificity.

Predicting metabolomic profiles from microbial composition through neural ordinary differential equations

This paper introduces mNODE, a neural ODE-based method predicting metabolomic profiles from microbial composition, showing superior performance and interpretability across human and environmental microbiomes.

A plant virus causes symptoms through the deployment of a host-mimicking protein domain to attract the insect vector

This study identifies how the tomato yellow leaf curl virus uses a host-mimicking protein domain to disrupt plant processes and attract insect vectors, facilitating viral spread.

Association Rule Mining of the Human Gut Microbiome

This study uses association rule mining to analyze the human gut microbiome, identifying higher-order microbial relationships and showing improved disease classification.

The transcriptional regulator JAZ8 interacts with the C2 protein from geminiviruses and limits the viral infection in Arabidopsis

This study shows JAZ8 interacts with geminiviral C2 proteins and limits viral infection in Arabidopsis.

Ecological Dynamics Imposes Fundamental Challenges in Microbial Source Tracking

This study shows that existing microbial source tracking solvers fail to solve the MST problem when ecological dynamics, such as microbial interactions and priority effects, are present.

Origins of Scaling Laws in Microbial Dynamics

The paper shows scaling laws in microbial dynamics are universal across habitats and driven by stochastic factors and inter-species interactions.

Characterizing scaling laws in gut microbial dynamics from time series data: caution is warranted

The paper analyzes gut microbial dynamics in humans and mice, finding robust scaling laws, but cautions that these laws can be reproduced by randomized time series.

Deciphering Functional Redundancy in the Human Microbiome

The paper investigates functional redundancy in the human microbiome by analyzing genomic content networks and developing a genome evolution model to explain their topological features.

Gut expressed vitellogenin is hijacked by a virus to facilitate its spread

The paper shows that vitellogenin in the midgut of whiteflies is used by a virus to aid its spread across the midgut wall.