Microbial communities of the Arctic Ocean are poorly characterized in comparison to other
aquatic environments as to their horizontal, vertical, and temporal turnover. Yet, recent …

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory disease that affects the colon and rectum.
Recently, evidence has emerged about the influence of microbiota on the development of …

Abstract The 'One Health'framework emphasizes the ecological relationships between soil,
plant, animal and human health. Microbiomes play important roles in these relationships, as …

Due to continuous anthropogenic activities and other natural changes, aquatic ecosystems
are under increasing stress. Metagenomics aided by next-generation sequencing …

The development of new biomarkers for human male infertility is crucial to improve the
diagnosis and the prognosis of this disease. Recently, seminal microbiota was shown to be …

The Indian Ocean harbors oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) in the Arabian Sea and Bay of
Bengal, with dissolved oxygen< 20 μM, located at the mid-depths of the water column. Till …

Environmental DNA sequencing is the gold standard to reveal microbial community
structures. In most applications, a one‐fragment PCR approach is applied to amplify a …

Background The direct use of medical zinc oxide in feed will be abandoned after 2022 in
Europe, leaving an urgent need for substitutes to prevent post-weaning disorders. Results …

Bacterial communities thriving in various components determine the host health and water
quality in biofloc technology (BFT)-based aquaculture system. Despite increasing utilization …

The advance of high-throughput molecular biology tools allows in-depth profiling of
microbial communities in soils, which possess a high diversity of prokaryotic …