Amphibian populations worldwide have declined and in some cases become extinct due to
chytridiomycosis, a pandemic disease caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium …

Marine micro‐organisms are a promising source for novel natural compounds with many
medical and biotechnological applications. Here, we demonstrate limitations and recent …

Paris-based Sanofi and the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology
(IME) in January announced a joint effort to explore natural products as leads for developing …

There is an increasing interest in the utilisation of marine bioactive compounds as novel
biopharmaceuticals and agrichemicals; however, little is known about the environmental …

The pharmaceutical industry has historically relied on nature to provide compounds for
antibacterial drug discovery. In recent years, several pharmaceutical companies have …

Pseudomonads are cosmopolitan microorganisms able to produce a wide array of
specialized metabolites. These molecules allow Pseudomonas to scavenge nutrients, sense …

Aims The rise of antibiotic resistance pushes the pharmaceutical industry to continually
search for substances with new structures and novel mechanisms of action. Many …

Background As microbiome research becomes increasingly prevalent in the fields of human
health, agriculture and biotechnology, there exists a need for a resource to better link …

There is growing recognition that microbiomes play substantial roles in animal eco-
physiology and evolution. To date, microbiome research has largely focused on terrestrial …

Study of plant metabolome is a growing field of science that catalogs vast biochemical and
functional diversity of phytochemicals. However, collecting and storing samples of plant …