Planctomycetes are ubiquitous, environmentally and biotechnologically important bacteria
that are key players in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. Ever since their first discovery in …

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 …

Microplastics are emerging pollutants that have recently aroused considerable concern but
most toxicological studies have focused on marine biota, with little investigation of the …

Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) contamination of soil has attracted global attention in
recent years but influences of PFCs on microorganisms in the soil environment have not …

Members of the bacterial order Planctomycetales have often been observed in associations
with Crustacea. The ability to degrade chitin, however, has never been reported for any of …

The microbiome of freshwater sponges is rarely studied, and not a single novel bacterial
species has been isolated and subsequently characterized from a freshwater sponge to …

Coastal upwelling zones are hotspots of oceanic productivity, driven by phytoplankton
photosynthesis. Bacteria, in turn, grow on and are the principal remineralizers of dissolved …

Microorganisms represent a substantial portion of the earth's biodiversity and biomass, and
the plant rhizosphere is an innate reservoir teeming with heterogeneous microbes …

The family Gemmataceae accommodates aerobic, chemoorganotrophic planctomycetes,
which inhabit various freshwater ecosystems, wetlands and soils. Here, we describe a novel …

Acidobacteria are one of the most abundant and ubiquitous bacterial phyla in soil, but the
mechanisms underpinning their ecological success remain unknown. Acidobacteria …