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David A. Mills

Distinguished Professor; Peter J. Shields Endowed Chair; University of California-Davis
Verified email at ucdavis.edu
Cited by 37168

Nursing our microbiota: molecular linkages between bifidobacteria and milk oligosaccharides

DA Sela, DA Mills - Trends in microbiology, 2010 - cell.com
As the sole nutrition provided to infants, bioactive molecules dissolved in milk influence the
development of our gut microbiota. Accordingly, human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are …

Prebiotics: why definitions matter

…, YJ Goh, B Hamaker, EC Martens, DA Mills… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
… Finally, as Frese and Mills suggested recently [51], another way to assess the metabolic
fate of prebiotics is by fecal glycomics — simply measuring what is excreted in feces and …

[HTML][HTML] Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis: champion colonizer of the infant gut

MA Underwood, JB German, CB Lebrilla, DA Mills - Pediatric research, 2015 - nature.com
… Zivkovic AM, German JB, Lebrilla CB, Mills DA . Human milk glycobiome and its impact
on the infant gastrointestinal microbiota. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2011;108:Suppl 1:4653–8. …

Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

…, JJ Faith, D Gevers, JI Gordon, R Knight, DA Mills… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
High-throughput sequencing has revolutionized microbial ecology, but read quality remains
a considerable barrier to accurate taxonomy assignment and α-diversity assessment for …

The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals adaptations for milk utilization within the infant microbiome

…, NP Price, PM Richardson, DA Mills - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Following birth, the breast-fed infant gastrointestinal tract is rapidly colonized by a microbial
consortium often dominated by bifidobacteria. Accordingly, the complete genome sequence …

Microbial biogeography of wine grapes is conditioned by cultivar, vintage, and climate

…, PM Richardson, DA Mills - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Wine grapes present a unique biogeography model, wherein microbial biodiversity patterns
across viticultural zones not only answer questions of dispersal and community maintenance…

Human milk glycobiome and its impact on the infant gastrointestinal microbiota

…, JB German, CB Lebrilla, DA Mills - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
… Among all samples analyzed to date, a neutral oligosaccharide with neutral mass 709.3 Da
(… masses of 855.3 Da and 1220.4 Da (found in all five donors), and 1511.6 Da, a fucosylated …

The soil microbiome influences grapevine-associated microbiota

…, J Hampton-Marcell, S Lax, NA Bokulich, DA Mills… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Grapevine is a well-studied, economically relevant crop, whose associated bacteria could
influence its organoleptic properties. In this study, the spatial and temporal dynamics of the …

Direct profiling of the yeast dynamics in wine fermentations

L Cocolin, LF Bisson, DA Mills - FEMS microbiology letters, 2000 - academic.oup.com
We present a method to directly characterize the yeast diversity present in wine fermentations
by employing denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of polymerase chain …

Consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by gut-related microbes

…, JB German, CB Lebrilla, DA Mills - Journal of agricultural …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Human milk contains large amounts of complex oligosaccharides that putatively modulate
the intestinal microbiota of breast-fed infants by acting as decoy binding sites for pathogens …