Amy D. Willis

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• A transfer RNA inosine modification drives genome-wide synonymous recoding across human commensal bacterial families

  PNAS Nexus · 2026-05-30

• Geometry of the space of phylogenetic trees with non-identical leaves

  Advances in Applied Mathematics · 2026-04-15

• Geometry of the space of phylogenetic trees with non-identical leavesPreprint

  ArXiv.org · 2025-08-08

• Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-06-20 · 81 citations

• What limits our ability to study the effects of microbial diversity on health and the environment?

  Cell Systems · 2025-06-01

• Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress

  eLife · 2025-05-16 · 5 citations

• Author response: Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress

  2025-05-16

• Early-life and concurrent predictors of the healthy adolescent microbiome in a cohort study

  Genome Medicine · 2025-05-08 · 5 citations

• Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-02-21 · 5 citations

• Distances Between Extension Spaces of Phylogenetic Trees

  IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics · 2025-01-07 · 2 citations

• Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies

  Communications Biology · 2024-11-28 · 26 citations

• Author response: Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress

  2024-11-20

• Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stressPreprint

  eLife · 2024-11-20 · 7 citations

• A cross-sectional comparison of gut metagenomes between dairy workers and community controls

  BMC Genomics · 2024-07-20 · 4 citations