Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in shaping
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

The emergence of next generation sequencing (NGS) is revolutionizing the potential to
address complex microbiological challenges in the water industry. NGS technologies can …

Abstract Microbes in Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California) hydrothermal sediments thrive on
hydrocarbons and sulfur and experience steep, fluctuating temperature and chemical …

Microbial communities are essential components of aquatic ecosystems through their
contribution to food web dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Aquatic microbial …

Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

Advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics approaches over
almost the last three decades have substantially increased our ability to explore …

The systematic collection, integration and modelling of high-throughput molecular data
(multi-omics) allows the detailed characterisation of microbiomes in situ. Through metabolic …

Microbes are critical in carbon and nutrient cycling in freshwater ecosystems. Members of
the Verrucomicrobia are ubiquitous in such systems, and yet their roles and ecophysiology …

Heme, a porphyrin ring complexed with iron, is a metalloprosthetic group of numerous
proteins involved in diverse metabolic and respiratory processes across all domains of life …

Taxonomy assignment of freshwater microbial communities is limited by the minimally
curated phylogenies used for large taxonomy databases. Here we introduce TaxAss, a …