Beginning with the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in the late 1920s, antibiotics
have revolutionized the field of medicine. They have saved millions of lives each year …

Research into the microbiome—the indigenous microbial communities (microbiota) and the
host environment that they inhabit—has changed clinicians' ideas about microbes in human …

Amplicon sequencing has revolutionized our ability to study DNA collected from
environmental samples by providing a rapid and sensitive technique for microbial …

Centrifuge is a novel microbial classification engine that enables rapid, accurate, and
sensitive labeling of reads and quantification of species on desktop computers. The system …

Scaling laws underpin unifying theories of biodiversity and are among the most predictively
powerful relationships in biology. However, scaling laws developed for plants and animals …

The harmonic coexistence of microorganisms with the human body is the result of a long
coevolutionary process that has minimized competition for nutrients and immunological …

More than 10 years ago, we published the paper describing the mothur software package in
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Our goal was to create a comprehensive package …

Dangerous, antibiotic resistant bacteria have been observed with increasing frequency over
the past several decades. In this review the factors that have been linked to this …

The number of species on Earth is one of the most fundamental numbers in science, but one
that remains highly uncertain. Clearly, more species exist than the present number of …

The role of macroalgae in Blue Carbon assessments has been controversial, partially due to
uncertainties about the fate of exported macroalgae. Available evidence suggests that …