Roderic Knight

Biographic Data

ID83498
NAMERoderic Knight
GIVEN NAMESRoderic
FAMILY NAMEKnight
SIGNATUREKNIGHT R
AFFILIATIONSHoward Hughes Medical Institute
ORCID0000-0002-0975-9019
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS69
TOTAL CITATIONS50
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1929
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Wastewater-integrated pathogen surveillance dashboards enable real-time, transparent, and interpretable public health risk assessment and dissemination

    Open AccessNosihle S Msomi, Joshua I Levy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Timely pathogen surveillance and reporting is essential for effective public health guidance. Web dashboards have become a key tool for communicating public health information to stakeholders, health care workers, and the broader community. Over the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, wastewater surveillance has increasingly been incorporated into public health workflows for outbreak monitoring and response, enabling community-representative and low-cost monito…

  • Observed Mask Wearing and Presence of Sars-CoV-2 in School Wastewater, San Diego County, CA, 2022

    Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Tommi Gaines et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2025References: 26

    Objectives. To test the association between directly observed school masking behaviors and the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in school wastewater. Methods. We randomly sampled a subset of schools participating in a translational study on the effectiveness of passive wastewater surveillance in nonresidential K‒12 settings in San Diego County. Trained observers conducted biweekly systematic observations of…

  • Longitudinal assessment of the impact of Covid-19 infection on mask-wearing behaviors

    Open AccessD Pham, Angel Lomeli et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This study has not been previously registered as it is an observational study. There was no pre-registration of the analytic plan for the present study

  • Association of Loneliness and Wisdom With Gut Microbial Diversity and Composition: An Exploratory Study

    Open AccessTanya T Nguyen, Xinlian Zhang et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Loneliness and wisdom have opposite effects on health and well-being. Loneliness is a serious public health problem associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Wisdom is associated with better health and well-being. We have consistently found a strong negative correlation between loneliness and wisdom. The present study aimed to investigate the association of loneliness and wisdom with the gut microbiome. One hundred eighty-four community-…

  • Paroxetine Administration Affects Microbiota and Bile Acid Levels in Mice

    Open AccessFrederik Dethloff, Fernando Vargas et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Recent interest in the role of microbiota in health and disease has implicated gut microbiota dysbiosis in psychiatric disorders including major depressive disorder. Several antidepressant drugs that belong to the class of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have been found to display antimicrobial activities. In fact, one of the first antidepressants discovered serendipitously in the 1950s, the monoamine-oxidase inhibitor Iproniazid, was a d…

  • Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using Qiime 2

    Open AccessEvan Bolyen, Jai Ram Rideout et al.ARTICLENature Biotechnology2019

  • Gut microbiota in wild and captive Guizhou snub‐nosed monkeys, Rhinopithecus brelichi

    Open AccessVanessa L Hale, Chia L Tan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Primatology2019

    Many colobine species—including the endangered Guizhou snub‐nosed monkey ( Rhinopithecus brelichi ) are difficult to maintain in captivity and frequently exhibit gastrointestinal (GI) problems. GI problems are commonly linked to alterations in the gut microbiota, which lead us to examine the gut microbial communities of wild and captive R. brelichi . We used high‐throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene to compare the gut microbiota of wild ( N…

  • The gut microbiome of nonhuman primates: Lessons in ecology and evolution

    Open AccessJonathan B Clayton, Gaspar Zarrías Arévalo et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Primatology2018

    The mammalian gastrointestinal (GI) tract is home to trillions of bacteria that play a substantial role in host metabolism and immunity. While progress has been made in understanding the role that microbial communities play in human health and disease, much less attention has been given to host-associated microbiomes in nonhuman primates (NHPs). Here we review past and current research exploring the gut microbiome of NHPs. First, we summarize met…

  • The Microbiome in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Exposed Controls: An Exploratory Study

    Sian M J Hemmings, Sian Hemmings et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2017

    OBJECTIVE: Inadequate immunoregulation and elevated inflammation may be risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and microbial inputs are important determinants of immunoregulation; however, the association between the gut microbiota and PTSD is unknown. This study investigated the gut microbiome in a South African sample of PTSD-affected individuals and trauma-exposed (TE) controls to identify potential differences in microbial div…

  • Host age, social group, and habitat type influence the gut microbiota of wild ring‐tailed lemurs ( Lemur catta )

    Open AccessGenevieve Bennett, Matthew Malone et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Primatology2016

    The gut microbiota contributes to host health by maintaining homeostasis, increasing digestive efficiency, and facilitating the development of the immune system. The composition of the gut microbiota can change dramatically within and between individuals of a species as a result of diet, age, or habitat. Therefore, understanding the factors determining gut microbiota diversity and composition can contribute to our knowledge of host ecology as wel…

  • Measuring Causal Specificity

    Open AccessPaul E Griffiths, Arnaud Pocheville et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2015Cited by: 15References: 14

    Several authors have argued that causes differ in the degree to which they are ‘specific’ to their effects. Woodward has used this idea to enrich his influential interventionist theory of causal explanation. Here we propose a way to measure causal specificity using tools from information theory. We show that the specificity of a causal variable is not well defined without a probability distribution over the states of that variable. We demonstrate…

  • Multilevel Research Strategies and Biological Systems

    Open AccessMaureen A O’malley, Ingo Brigandt et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2014Cited by: 5References: 82

    Multilevel research strategies characterize contemporary molecular inquiry into biological systems. We outline conceptual, methodological, and explanatory dimensions of these multilevel strategies in microbial ecology, systems biology, protein research, and developmental biology. This review of emerging lines of inquiry in these fields suggests that multilevel research in molecular life sciences has significant implications for philosophical unde…

  • Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

    Open AccessMorgan G I Langille, Jesse Zaneveld et al.ARTICLENature Biotechnology2013

  • Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

    Open AccessTanya Yatsunenko, Frédéric Rey et al.ARTICLENature2012

    Gut microbial communities represent one source of human genetic and metabolic diversity. To examine how gut microbiomes differ among human populations, here we characterize bacterial species in fecal samples from 531 individuals, plus the gene content of 110 of them. The cohort encompassed healthy children and adults from the Amazonas of Venezuela, rural Malawi and US metropolitan areas and included mono- and dizygotic twins. Shared features of t…

  • Uchime improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

    Open AccessR C Edgar, Brian J Haas et al.ARTICLEBioinformatics2011

    Motivation: Chimeric DNA sequences often form during polymerase chain reaction amplification, especially when sequencing single regions (e.g. 16S rRNA or fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer) to assess diversity or compare populations. Undetected chimeras may be misinterpreted as novel species, causing inflated estimates of diversity and spurious inferences of differences between populations. Detection and removal of chimeras is therefore of critic…

  • Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes

    Open AccessGary D Wu, Jun Chen et al.ARTICLEScience2011

    The basic composition of the human gut microbiome is influenced by long-term diet: high fat and protein versus high fiber.

  • Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns

    Open AccessM G Dominguez‐bello, Maria G Dominguez-Bello et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2010

    Upon delivery, the neonate is exposed for the first time to a wide array of microbes from a variety of sources, including maternal bacteria. Although prior studies have suggested that delivery mode shapes the microbiota's establishment and, subsequently, its role in child health, most researchers have focused on specific bacterial taxa or on a single body habitat, the gut. Thus, the initiation stage of human microbiome development remains obscure…

  • Qiime allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    Open AccessJ Gregory Caporaso, Justin Kuczynski et al.ARTICLENature Methods2010

  • Life Through A Microbial Lens

    Open AccessSusan Spath, Maureen A O’malley et al.ARTICLEMetascience2009

  • The Human Microbiome Project

    Open AccessPeter J Turnbaugh, Ruth E Ley et al.ARTICLENature2007

  • The Sidi Malunga Project: Rejuvenating the African Musical Bow in India

    Roderic KnightARTICLEEthnomusicology2007

    Book Review| October 01 2007 The Sidi Malunga Project: Rejuvenating the African Musical Bow in India The Sidi Malunga Project: Rejuvenating the African Musical Bow in India, Nazir Jairazbhoy and Amy Jairazbhoy. Roderic Knight Roderic Knight Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (3): 537–539. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174559 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …

  • The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India

    Roderic KnightARTICLEEthnomusicology2006Cited by: 1

    Book Review| October 01 2006 The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India, Richard K. Wolf. Roderic Knight Roderic Knight Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (3): 500–502. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174474 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…

  • How biologists conceptualize genes: An empirical study

    Open AccessKarola Stotz, Paul E Griffiths et al.ARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2004Cited by: 16References: 1

  • Masters of the Balafon: Funeral Festivities

    Roderic Knight, Hugo ZempARTICLEEthnomusicology2003

  • Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa

    Roderic Knight, Eric Charry et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2003