Persistent microbial symbioses can confer greater fitness to their host under unfavorable
conditions, but manipulating such beneficial interactions necessitates a mechanistic …

Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil
microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial biogeochemistry, driving the turnover of soil …

Bacteria catalyze the formation and destruction of soil organic matter, but the bacterial
dynamics in soil that govern carbon (C) cycling are not well understood. Life history …

Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies
challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities …

Genomics–the mapping and sequencing of genomes and analysis of gene and genome
function (1)–will revolutionize the biological and possibly the geological sciences. To date …

The response of soil microbes to heavy metal pollution provides a metric to evaluate the soil
health and ecological risks associated with heavy metal contamination. However, a …

Kinetic modeling of microbial reactions is a common tool for addressing the central
environmental questions of our time, from contaminant remediation to the global carbon …

The chemistry underpinning microbial interactions provides an integrative framework for
linking the activities of individual microbes, microbial communities, plants, and their …

Heavy metal (HM) contamination caused by mining and smelting activities can be harmful to
soil microbiota, which are highly sensitive to HM stress. Here, we explore the effects of HM …

A large fraction of the total global prokaryotic biomass lives in the groundwater-saturated
zones of the continental subsurface. Groundwater environments are dark, and typically …