When it comes to the investigation of key ecosystems in the world, we often omit salt from the
ecological recipe. In fact, despite occupying almost half of the volume of inland waters and …

Microbial mats are horizontally stratified microbial communities, exhibiting a structure
defined by physiochemical gradients, which models microbial diversity, physiological …

Abstract Background Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are recognized as hotspots for
horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Despite our …

Background Phosphorus (P) is one of the most essential macronutrients on the planet, and
microorganisms (including bacteria and archaea) play a key role in P cycling in all living …

A recent field-intensive program in Shark Bay, Western Australia provides new multi-scale
perspectives on the world's most extensive modern stromatolite system. Mapping revealed a …

Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent discharge could induce the resistome
enrichment in the receiving water environments. However, because of the general lack of a …

The functional metagenomic potential of Shark Bay microbial mats was examined for the first
time at a millimeter scale, employing shotgun sequencing of communities via the Illumina …

Globally, reducing carbon emissions and mitigating soil heavy metal pollution pose pressing
challenges. We evaluated the effects of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) contamination in the …

Modern microbial mats can provide key insights into early Earth ecosystems and Shark Bay,
Australia, holds one of the best examples of these systems. Identifying the spatial distribution …

Abstract Background Shark Bay, Australia, harbours one of the most extensive and diverse
systems of living microbial mats that are proposed to be analogs of some of the earliest …