Developing general principles of host–microorganism interactions necessitates a robust
understanding of the eco-evolutionary processes that structure microbiota. Phylosymbiosis …

Phylosymbiosis was recently formulated to support a hypothesis-driven framework for the
characterization of a new, cross-system trend in host-associated microbiomes. Defining …

Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies
challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities …

Motivation: Next-generation sequencing produces vast amounts of data with errors that are
difficult to distinguish from true biological variation when coverage is low. Results: We …

Sponges (phylum Porifera) are early-diverging metazoa renowned for establishing complex
microbial symbioses. Here we present a global Porifera microbiome survey, set out to …

Molecular microbial ecology investigations often employ large marker gene datasets, for
example, ribosomal RNAs, to represent the occurrence of single-cell genomes in microbial …

Disentangling the biogeographic patterns of rare and abundant microbes is essential in
order to understand the generation and maintenance of microbial diversity with respect to …

Highlights•The microbiomes in many animal and plant hosts are diverse and
variable.•Within-host processes are dominated by host-microbe and among-microbe …

The Human Microbiome Project provided a census of bacterial populations in healthy
individuals, but an understanding of the biomedical significance of this census has been …

Our ability to describe the highly diverse pool of low abundance populations present in
natural microbial communities is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Yet we currently lack …