Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

The majority of life on Earth—notably, microbial life—occurs in places that do not receive
sunlight, with the habitats of the oceans being the largest of these reservoirs. Sunlight …

The sinking of organic particles formed in the photic layer is a main vector of carbon export
into the deep ocean. Although sinking particles are heavily colonized by microbes, so far it …

Marine oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) support diverse microbial communities with roles in
major elemental cycles. It is unclear how the taxonomic composition and metabolism of OMZ …

Microbes have a central role in soil global biogeochemical process, yet specific microbe–
microbe relationships are largely unknown. Analytical approaches as network analysis may …

The deep-sea is the largest biome of the biosphere, and contains more than half of the
whole ocean's microbes. Uncovering their general patterns of diversity and community …

We investigated compositional relationships between bacterial communities in the water
column and those in deep-sea sediment at three environmentally distinct Pacific sites (two in …

Bacteria are widespread in nature as they can adapt to any extreme environmental
conditions and perform various physiological activities. Marine environments are one of the …

The variation of life has predominantly been studied on land and in water, but this focus is
changing. There is a resurging interest in the distribution of life in the atmosphere and the …

The ocean constitutes one of the vastest and richest biomes on our planet. Most recent
estimations, all based on indirect approaches, suggest that there are millions of marine …