Various fields have been identified in the “omics” era, such as genomics, proteomics,
transcriptomics, metabolomics, phenomics, and metagenomics. Among these …

Deep investigation of the microbiome of food-production and food-processing environments
through whole-metagenome sequencing (WMS) can provide detailed information on the …

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) play a key role in the aquatic nitrogen cycle. Their
genetic diversity is viewed as the outcome of evolutionary processes that shaped ancestral …

The crossing of environmental barriers poses major adaptive challenges. Rareness of
freshwater-marine transitions separates the bacterial communities, but how these are …

The past two decades has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of microbial
genomes retrieved from marine systems,. However, it has remained challenging to translate …

Secondary metabolites play essential roles in ecological interactions and nutrient
acquisition, and are of interest for their potential uses in medicine and biotechnology …

Carbon fixation is a critical process for our planet; however, its distribution across the
bacterial and archaeal domains of life has not been comprehensively studied. Here, we …

Ocean deoxygenation could potentially trigger substantial changes in the composition and
reactivity of dissolved organic matter (DOM) pool, which plays an important role in the global …

The long-term fate of plastics in the ocean and their interactions with marine microorganisms
remain poorly understood. In particular, the role of sinking plastic particles as a transport …

Coastal sediments in the proximity of wastewater and emergency outfalls are often sinks of
pharmaceutical compounds and other organic and inorganic contaminants that are likely to …