Major depressive disorder is one of the most disabling mental disorders worldwide.
Increasing preclinical and clinical studies have highlighted that compositional and functional …

Bacillus and Pseudomonas ubiquitously occur in natural environments and are two of the
most intensively studied bacterial genera in the soil. They are often coisolated from …

The human gut microbiome plays an important role in resisting colonization of the host by
pathogens, but we lack the ability to predict which communities will be protective. We …

Keystone taxa in ecological communities are native taxa that play an especially important
role in the stability of their ecosystem. However, we still lack an effective framework for …

Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics, but how they affect transitions between
different states in swarmalator systems is yet to be determined. To that effect, we here study …

During the last decades, macroecology has identified broad-scale patterns of abundances
and diversity of microbial communities and put forward some potential explanations for …

Plant-associated microbiota are becoming central in the development of ways to improve
plant productivity and health. However, most research has focussed mainly on a few model …

Understanding the assembly of multispecies microbial communities represents a significant
challenge in ecology and has wide applications in agriculture, wastewater treatment, and …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, facemasks played a pivotal role in preventing person-
person droplet transmission of viral particles. However, prolonged facemask wearing causes …

Motivation The accumulation of multi-omics microbiome data provides an unprecedented
opportunity to understand the diversity of bacterial, fungal, and viral components from …