Tag: microbial ecology

A new study shows that environmental origin and oxygen availability act as complementary ecological filters that determine which hydrocarbon-degrading microbes ...

A 16S rRNA gene sequencing survey of four Colombian Andean lakes reveals diverse bacterial communities, predicted metabolic functions and low-abundance ...

A study of the Eurasian meadow steppe shows that plant communities peak in diversity at moderate grazing while soil multitrophic ...

An open-source Snakemake pipeline called ERMA standardizes and automates epicPCR data analysis, achieving strong concordance with published results and full ...

New research shows that dietary fibers and vitamins promote dominance of Segatella over Bacteroidaceae in the human gut only through ...

Researchers have shown that a leaf-dwelling yeast secretes thiamine through a dedicated permease to help an obligate plant pathogen colonize ...

A new cybernetic modeling study shows that fast-growing copiotrophic microbes and their interactions with non-degrading neighbors determine whether fresh organic ...

A multi-scale survey at One Tree Island on the Great Barrier Reef shows that lagoon-wide spatial and nutrient gradients, not ...

A simulated 8-degree heatwave in Lake Taihu mesocosms revealed that prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities follow sharply different paths of ...

New research from the Australian Alps shows that peatland degradation disrupts the depth- and water-table-dependent organization of microbial communities and ...