Background The increasing availability of gene sequences of prokaryotic species in
samples extracted from all kind of locations allows addressing the study of the influence of …

Viruses, and more particularly phages (viruses that infect bacteria), represent one of the
most abundant living entities in aquatic and terrestrial environments. The biogeography of …

Members of the Planctomycetes, which were once thought to occur primarily in aquatic
environments, have been discovered in soils on five continents, revealing that these …

Microbes and other organisms smaller than one to a few millimeters in size are
hypothesized to have global populations, in contrast to the geographically restricted ranges …

Concepts and definitions of species have been debated by generations of biologists and
remain controversial. Microbes pose a particular challenge because of their genetic …

We aimed to identify phylogenetic community patterns in abundant planktonic bacteria
(Alpha-, Beta-, and Gammaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Cyanobacteria, and …

Microbial biogeography is influenced by the combined effects of passive dispersal and
environmental selection, but the contribution of either factor can be difficult to discern. As …

The ecosystems of the Red Sea are among the least-explored microbial habitats in the
marine environment. In this study, we investigated the microbial communities in the water …

Microfungi that inhabit floral nectar offer unique opportunities for the study of microbial
distribution and the role that dispersal limitation may play in generating distribution patterns …

Accelerated microbial degradation is the name commonly given to the phenomenon
associated with a significant increase in the rate of degradation of a pesticide in soil …