Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

Periodontal diseases are initiated by bacterial species living in polymicrobial biofilms at or
below the gingival margin and progress largely as a result of the inflammation elicited by …

This book chapter argues for an open-access catalogue of taxonomic descriptions with
prototypes; diagnostic tables; and links to culture collections, to genome and gene …

Powerful scientific techniques have caused dramatic expansion of genetically modified
crops leading to altered agricultural practices posing direct and indirect environmental …

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award,“our
greatest living chronicler of the natural world”(The New York Times), David Quammen …

This article reviews the production of different phenotypes from the same genotype in the
same environment by stochastic cellular events, nonlinear mechanisms during patterning …

Microbial communities in animal guts are composed of diverse, specialized bacterial
species, but little is known about how gut bacteria diversify to produce genetically and …

Delineation of species is fundamental to organizing and understanding biological diversity.
The most widely applied criterion for distinguishing species is the Biological Species …

Escherichia coli have served as important model organisms for over a century—used to
elucidate key aspects of genetics, evolution, molecular biology, and pathogenesis. However …

Background Vibrio taxonomy has been based on a polyphasic approach. In this study, we
retrieve useful taxonomic information (ie data that can be used to distinguish different …