This article reports and analyzes the results of protein contact and distance prediction by our
methods in the 14th Critical Assessment of techniques for protein Structure Prediction …

Marine microbiomes are prolific sources of bioactive natural products of potential
pharmaceutical value. This study inspected two culture collections comprising 919 host …

Abstract Background The RCA (Roseobacter clade affiliated) cluster belongs to the family
Roseobacteracea and represents a major Roseobacter lineage in temperate to polar …

Complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox) are a group of ubiquitous chemolithoautotrophic
bacteria capable of deriving energy from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite. Here …

The major nutrients available to the human colonic microbiota are complex glycans derived
from the diet. To degrade this highly variable mix of sugar structures, gut microbes have …

Potassium-selective channelrhodopsins (KCRs) are light-gated K+ channels recently found
in the stramenopile protist Hyphochytrium catenoides. When expressed in neurons, KCRs …

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum is a significant probiotic where it could be found in ubiquitous
niches. In this study, a new Lb. plantarum strain DY46 was isolated from a traditional lactic …

This study aimed to characterize the genomic and metabolic properties of a novel Lb.
fermentum strain AGA52 which was isolated from a lactic acid fermented beverage called …

Here, we describe the “Obelisks,” a previously unrecognised class of viroid-like elements
that we first identified in human gut metatranscriptomic data.“Obelisks” share several …

Background Viruses impact nearly all organisms on Earth, including microbial communities
and their associated biogeochemical processes. In soils, highly diverse viral communities …