Diversity and ecology of protists revealed by metabarcoding

F Burki, MM Sandin, M Jamy - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Protists are the dominant eukaryotes in the biosphere where they play key functional roles.
While protists have been studied for over a century, it is the high-throughput sequencing of …

Analysing microbial community composition through amplicon sequencing: from sampling to hypothesis testing

LW Hugerth, AF Andersson - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Microbial ecology as a scientific field is fundamentally driven by technological advance. The
past decade's revolution in DNA sequencing cost and throughput has made it possible for …

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

FT Maestre, Y Le Bagousse-Pinguet… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem
services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure …

Low shifts in salinity determined assembly processes and network stability of microeukaryotic plankton communities in a subtropical urban reservoir

Y Mo, F Peng, X Gao, P Xiao, R Logares, E Jeppesen… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Freshwater salinization may result in significant changes of microbial
community composition and diversity, with implications for ecosystem processes and …

Global hotspots for soil nature conservation

CA Guerra, M Berdugo, DJ Eldridge, N Eisenhauer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. However, unlike for plants and animals,
a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation is still lacking. This hampers our …

Standardized multi-omics of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity

JP Shaffer, LF Nothias, LR Thompson, JG Sanders… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies
challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities …

Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons

W Chen, K Ren, A Isabwe, H Chen, M Liu, J Yang - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background The deep mechanisms (deterministic and/or stochastic processes) underlying
community assembly are a central challenge in microbial ecology. However, the relative …

Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome

M Bahram, F Hildebrand, SK Forslund, JL Anderson… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Soils harbour some of the most diverse microbiomes on Earth and are essential for both
nutrient cycling and carbon storage. To understand soil functioning, it is necessary to model …

Distinct patterns and processes of abundant and rare eukaryotic plankton communities following a reservoir cyanobacterial bloom

Y Xue, H Chen, JR Yang, M Liu, B Huang… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Plankton communities normally consist of few abundant and many rare species, yet little is
known about the ecological role of rare planktonic eukaryotes. Here we used a 18S …

[图书][B] A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment.

K Bruce, RC Blackman, SJ Bourlat, M Hellström… - 2021 - repository.oceanbestpractices.org
This book represents a synthesis of knowledge and best practice in the field of DNA-based
biomonitoring at the time of writing. It has been written with end-users of molecular tools in …