Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

Dimethyl octacosanedioic acid (iso-diabolic acid) is a major membrane-spanning lipid of
subdivisions (SDs) 1, 3 and 4 of the Acidobacteria, a highly diverse phylum within the …

Due to the persistence of metals in the ecosystem and their threat to all living organisms,
effects of heavy metal on soil microbial communities were widely studied. However, little was …

Soil microbes play critical roles in ecosystem function. Although the effects of agriculture
management on microbial communities in topsoil have been well studied, few studies have …

Many studies have investigated patterns in the near‐surface soil microbial community over
large spatial scales. However, less is known about variation in subsurface (15–30 cm of …

Background Microbes are main drivers of biogeochemical cycles in oceans and lakes.
Although the genome is a foundation for understanding the metabolism, ecology and …

Members of the phylum Planctomycetes are common inhabitants of boreal Sphagnum peat
bogs and lichen-dominated tundra wetlands. These bacteria colonize both oxic and anoxic …

Chlamydiae have been known for more than a century as major pathogens of humans. Yet
they are also found ubiquitously in the environment where they thrive within protists and in …

Traditionally recognized as environmental bacteria, Planctomycetes have just been linked
recently to human pathology as opportunistic pathogens, arousing a great interest for clinical …

The Acidobacteria is one of the major bacterial phyla in soils and peatlands. The currently
explored diversity within this phylum is assigned to 15 class-level units, five of which contain …