Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

MDJ Lynch, JD Neufeld - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
The profound influence of microorganisms on human life and global biogeochemical cycles
underlines the value of studying the biogeography of microorganisms, exploring microbial …

Reaching unreachables: Obstacles and successes of microbial cultivation and their reasons

G Kapinusova, MA Lopez Marin, O Uhlik - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In terms of the number and diversity of living units, the prokaryotic empire is the most
represented form of life on Earth, and yet it is still to a significant degree shrouded in …

Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

KR Bradnam, JN Fass, A Alexandrov, P Baranay… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background The process of generating raw genome sequence data continues to become
cheaper, faster, and more accurate. However, assembly of such data into high-quality …

Exploring links between pH and bacterial community composition in soils from the Craibstone Experimental Farm

AK Bartram, X Jiang, MDJ Lynch… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Soil pH is an important determinant of microbial community composition and diversity, yet
few studies have characterized the specific effects of pH on individual bacterial taxa within …

Overview of freshwater microbial eukaryotes diversity: a first analysis of publicly available metabarcoding data

D Debroas, I Domaizon, JF Humbert… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Although they are widespread, diverse and involved in biogeochemical cycles, microbial
eukaryotes attract less attention than their prokaryotic counterparts in environmental …

Expanding the world of marine bacterial and archaeal clades

P Yilmaz, P Yarza, JZ Rapp, FO Glöckner - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Determining which microbial taxa are out there, where they live, and what they are doing is a
driving approach in marine microbial ecology. The importance of these questions is …

Temporal patterns of rarity provide a more complete view of microbial diversity

A Shade, JA Gilbert - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
Recently, conditionally rare taxa (CRTs)–those taxa that are typically in very low abundance
but occasionally achieve prevalence–were shown to contribute to patterns of microbial …

Effect of zinc and iron oxide nanoparticles on plant physiology, seed quality and microbial community structure in a rice-soil-microbial ecosystem

S Afzal, NK Singh - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we assessed the impact of zinc oxide (ZnO) and iron oxide (FeO)(< 36 nm)
nanoparticles (NPs) as well as their sulphate salt (bulk) counterpart (0, 25, 100 mg/kg) on …

Low abundant soil bacteria can be metabolically versatile and fast growing

V Kurm, WH Van Der Putten, W De Boer… - Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The abundance of species is assumed to depend on their life history traits, such as growth
rate and resource specialization. However, this assumption has not been tested for bacteria …

A k-mer-Based Approach for Phylogenetic Classification of Taxa in Environmental Genomic Data

J Van Etten, TG Stephens, D Bhattacharya - Systematic biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the age of genome sequencing, whole-genome data is readily and frequently generated,
leading to a wealth of new information that can be used to advance various fields of …