Phylogenetic diversity—patterns of phylogenetic relatedness among organisms in
ecological communities—provides important insights into the mechanisms underlying …

Microbial community metagenomes and individual microbial genomes are becoming
increasingly accessible by means of high-throughput sequencing. Assessing organismal …

The recent prevalence of high-throughput sequencing has been producing numerous
prokaryotic community structure datasets. Although the trait-based approach is useful to …

Little is known about the evolutionary processes that structure and maintain microbial
diversity because, until recently, it was difficult to explore individual-level patterns of …

Over the past quarter-century, microbiologists have used DNA sequence information to aid
in the characterization of microbial communities. During the last decade, this has expanded …

Metagenomic investigations hold great promise for informing the genetics, physiology, and
ecology of environmental microorganisms. Current challenges for metagenomic analysis are …

Surveying microbial diversity and function is accomplished by combining complementary
molecular tools. Among them, metagenomics is a PCR free approach that contains all …

Motivation: Next-generation sequencing coupled with metagenomics has led to the rapid
growth of sequence databases and enabled a new branch of microbiology called …

Background Metagenomic analyses of microbial communities that are comprehensive
enough to provide multiple samples of most loci in the genomes of the dominant organism …

One of the most widely employed methods in metagenomics is the amplification and
sequencing of the highly conserved ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes from organisms in …