The vast majority of bacterial species remain uncultured, and this severely limits the
investigation of their physiology, metabolic capabilities, and role in the environment. High …

Background Metatranscriptomics is emerging as a powerful technology for the functional
characterization of complex microbial communities (microbiomes). Use of unbiased RNA …

Although there is now an extensive understanding of the diversity of microbial life on earth
through culture-independent metagenomic DNA sequence analyses, the isolation and …

Culture-based studies of the microbial community within the gut of the medicinal leech have
typically been focused on various Aeromonas species, which were believed to be the sole …

The human intestinal microbiome is a microbial ecosystem that expresses as many as 100
times more genes than the human host, thereby constituting an important component of the …

A recent explosion in the number of studies taking advantage of the power of next-
generation sequencing to explore metagenomic or 16S rRNA taxonomic diversity of …

Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing approaches are more frequently being
used to link microbiota to important diseases and ecological changes. Many analyses have …

Digestive-tract microbiota exert tremendous influence over host health. Host-symbiont model
systems are studied to investigate how symbioses are initiated and maintained, as well as to …

With the advent of high through-put sequencing (HTS), the emerging science of
metagenomics is transforming our understanding of the relationships of microbial …

Background Metatranscriptomics has been used widely for investigation and quantification
of microbial communities' activity in response to external stimuli. By assessing the genes …