Microorganisms have a pivotal role in the functioning of ecosystems. Recent studies have
shown that microbial communities harbour keystone taxa, which drive community …

Previous studies suggested that microbial communities can harbour keystone species
whose removal can cause a dramatic shift in microbiome structure and functioning. Yet, an …

The influence of biotic interactions on microbial community assembly is intensely debated.
We hypothesized that keystone taxa, which influence community assembly through strong …

Keystone taxa in ecological communities are native taxa that play an especially important
role in the stability of their ecosystem. However, we still lack an effective framework for …

Discovering a core microbiome is important for understanding the stable, consistent
components across complex microbial assemblages. A core is typically defined as the suite …

A challenging task to understand health and disease-related microbiome signatures is to
move beyond descriptive community-level profiling towards disentangling microbial …

Background The relationship between biodiversity and soil microbiome stability remains
poorly understood. Here, we investigated the impacts of bacterial phylogenetic diversity on …

Co-occurrence networks produced from microbial survey sequencing data are frequently
used to identify interactions between community members. While this approach has …

Bacterial communities are essential for the functioning of the Earth's ecosystems. A key
challenge is to quantify the functional roles of bacterial taxa in nature to understand how the …

The community of the diverse microorganisms residing in the gastrointestinal tract, known as
the gut microbiota, is exceedingly being studied for its impact on health and disease. This …