[HTML][HTML] Supplementation with a probiotic mixture accelerates gut microbiome maturation and reduces intestinal inflammation in extremely preterm infants

J Samara, S Moossavi, B Alshaikh, VA Ortega… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Probiotics are increasingly administered to premature infants to prevent necrotizing
enterocolitis and neonatal sepsis. However, their effects on gut microbiome assembly and …

The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity

MC Rillig, M Ryo, A Lehmann, CA Aguilar-Trigueros… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Soils underpin terrestrial ecosystem functions, but they face numerous anthropogenic
pressures. Despite their crucial ecological role, we know little about how soils react to more …

[HTML][HTML] The numbers of fungi: Contributions from traditional taxonomic studies and challenges of metabarcoding

C Phukhamsakda, RH Nilsson, CS Bhunjun… - Fungal diversity, 2022 - Springer
The global diversity of fungi has been estimated using several different approaches. There is
somewhere between 2–11 million estimated species, but the number of formally described …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems

G Gkoutselis, S Rohrbach, J Harjes, M Obst… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Microplastic (MP) is a pervasive pollutant in nature that is colonised by diverse groups of
microbes, including potentially pathogenic species. Fungi have been largely neglected in …

[HTML][HTML] In honor of John Bissett: authoritative guidelines on molecular identification of Trichoderma

F Cai, IS Druzhinina - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Modern taxonomy has developed towards the establishment of global authoritative lists of
species that assume the standardized principles of species recognition, at least in a given …

MGnify: the microbiome analysis resource in 2020

AL Mitchell, A Almeida, M Beracochea… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MGnify (http://www. ebi. ac. uk/metagenomics) provides a free to use platform for the
assembly, analysis and archiving of microbiome data derived from sequencing microbial …

High-throughput sequencing view on the magnitude of global fungal diversity

P Baldrian, T Větrovský, C Lepinay, P Kohout - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
High-throughput DNA sequencing has dramatically transformed several areas of biodiversity
research including mycology. Despite limitations, high-throughput sequencing is nowadays …

Shifting microbial communities can enhance tree tolerance to changing climates

CM Allsup, I George, RA Lankau - Science, 2023 - science.org
Climate change is pushing species outside of their evolved tolerances. Plant populations
must acclimate, adapt, or migrate to avoid extinction. However, because plants associate …

Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields

S Jiao, Y Lu - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning, and a predictive
understanding of how communities assemble in response to environmental change is of …

Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils

QL Chen, J Ding, D Zhu, HW Hu… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities play an essential role in driving multiple functions (ie,
multifunctionality) that are central to the global biogeochemical cycles. Long-term fertilization …