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Laura Wegener Parfrey

University of British Columbia ORCID

130

Works

25,940

Citations

47

h-index

82

i10-index

Research Topics

Gut microbiota and health Marine and coastal plant biology Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Affiliations

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research2015–2017

New York State Department of Health2006–2006

Wadsworth Center2006–2006

University of British Columbia2013–2026

University of Colorado Boulder2011–2016

Top Works

The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks

Pelin Yilmaz,Laura Wegener Parfrey,et al.

20134,035 citations

Protist diversity and phylogeny

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Human Health: An Integrative View

José C. Clemente,Luke K. Ursell,et al.

20123,720 citations

Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

Stilianos Louca,Laura Wegener Parfrey,et al.

20163,382 citations

Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

Stilianos Louca,Martin F. Polz,et al.

20181,947 citations

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

Sina M. Adl,Alastair G. B. Simpson,et al.

20121,640 citations

Defining the human microbiome

Luke K. Ursell,Jessica L. Metcalf,et al.

20121,243 citations

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

Laura Wegener Parfrey,Daniel J. G. Lahr,et al.

2011919 citations

Correcting for 16S rRNA gene copy numbers in microbiome surveys remains an unsolved problem

Stilianos Louca,Michael Doebeli,et al.

2018759 citations

Experimental and analytical tools for studying the human microbiome

Justin Kuczynski,Christian L. Lauber,et al.

2011711 citations