Plants are now recognized as metaorganisms which are composed of a host plant
associated with a multitude of microbes that provide the host plant with a variety of essential …

Plants host distinct microbial communities on and inside their tissues designated the plant
microbiota. Microbial community profiling enabled the description of the phylogenetic …

Motivation: The application of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to RNAs
directly extracted from a community of organisms yields a mixture of fragments …

Animal hosts have initiated myriad symbiotic associations with microorganisms and often
have maintained these symbioses for millions of years, spanning drastic changes in …

The bacteria that can be grown in the laboratory are only a small fraction of the total diversity
that exists in nature. At all levels of bacterial phylogeny, uncultured clades that do not grow …

The cultivation of bacteria is highly biased toward a few phylogenetic groups. Many of the
currently underexplored bacterial lineages likely have novel biosynthetic pathways and …

MiSeq, Illumina's integrated next generation sequencing instrument, uses reversible-
terminator sequencing-by-synthesis technology to provide end-to-end sequencing solutions …

Actinomycetes have been proven to be an excellent source of secondary metabolites for
more than half a century. Exhibiting various bioactivities, they provide valuable approved …

The numbers and diversity of microbes in ecosystems within and around us is unmatched,
yet most of these microorganisms remain recalcitrant to in vitro cultivation. Various high …

Analyzing human as well as animal microbiota composition has gained growing interest
because structural components and metabolites of microorganisms fundamentally influence …