Citations of the old microbiological tenet 'Everything is everywhere, but, the environment
selects' have spectacularly increased in frequency in recent years in environmental …

Microbial communities are at the very basis of life on earth, catalyzing biogeochemical
reactions driving global nutrient cycles. However, unlike for plants and animals, microbial …

Throughout evolutionary time, and each day in every habitat throughout the globe,
microorganisms have been responsible for maintaining the biosphere. Despite the crucial …

The phylogenetic resolution at which microorganisms display geographic endemism, the
rates at which they disperse at global scales, and the role of humans on global microbial …

Prokaryotes are well recognized as essential members of the biosphere. They inhabit all
possible locations for life to exist, from those offering ideal conditions for growth and …

The high diversity of soil bacteria is attributed to the spatial complexity of soil systems, where
habitat heterogeneity promotes niche partitioning among bacterial taxa. This premise …

Bacteria are one of the most abundant and diverse groups and mediate many critical
terrestrial ecosystem processes. Despite the crucial ecological role of bacteria, our …

INTRODUCTION reductions in sequencing costs, and the coevolution of computational tools
to process the ever-increasing amount of data, the field of metagenomics was “born”(11) …

The enormous sequencing capabilities of our times might be reaching the point of
overflowing the possibilities to analyse data and allow for a feedback on where to focus the …