Opportunities and challenges of using metagenomic data to bring uncultured microbes into cultivation

S Liu, CD Moon, N Zheng, S Huws, S Zhao, J Wang - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Although there is now an extensive understanding of the diversity of microbial life on earth
through culture-independent metagenomic DNA sequence analyses, the isolation and …

The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface

C Magnabosco, LH Lin, H Dong, M Bomberg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite accounting for a significant portion of the Earth's prokaryotic biomass, controls on
the abundance and biodiversity of microorganisms residing in the continental subsurface …

A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity

S Louca, F Mazel, M Doebeli, LW Parfrey - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The global diversity of Bacteria and Archaea, the most ancient and most widespread forms
of life on Earth, is a subject of intense controversy. This controversy stems largely from the …

Deep learning approaches for natural product discovery from plant endophytic microbiomes

SA Aghdam, AMV Brown - Environmental microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Plant microbiomes are not only diverse, but also appear to host a vast pool of secondary
metabolites holding great promise for bioactive natural products and drug discovery. Yet …

Diversity in biology: definitions, quantification and models

S Xu, L Böttcher, T Chou - Physical Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Diversity indices are useful single-number metrics for characterizing a complex distribution
of a set of attributes across a population of interest. The utility of these different metrics or …

Land use intensity constrains the positive relationship between soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality

J Jia, J Zhang, Y Li, M Xie, G Wang, J Zhang - Plant and Soil, 2022 - Springer
Aims The positive soil biodiversity and multifunctionality relationship has been widely
recognized, however in agricultural ecosystems, this relationship is context dependent and …

More support for Earth's massive microbiome

JT Lennon, KJ Locey - Biology Direct, 2020 - Springer
Until recently, our planet was thought to be home to~ 10 7 species, largely belonging to
plants and animals. Despite being the most abundant organisms on Earth, the contribution …

Metagenomics survey unravels diversity of biogas microbiomes with potential to enhance productivity in Kenya

SM Muturi, LW Muthui, PM Njogu, JM Onguso… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The obstacle to optimal utilization of biogas technology is poor understanding of biogas
microbiomes diversities over a wide geographical coverage. We performed random shotgun …

How to extrapolate species abundance distributions with minimum bias when dealing with incomplete species inventories.

J Béguinot - Advances in Research, 2018 - hal.science
The total number of co-occurring species (" true species richness") and the way their
respective abundances are distributed (" species abundance distribution") are two major …

Metagenomics survey unravels diversities of biogas' microbiomes with potential to enhance its' productivity in Kenya

SM Muturi, LW Muthui, PM Njogu, JM Onguso… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The obstacle to optimal utilization of biogas technology is poor understanding of biogas'
microbiome diversities over a wide geographical coverage. We performed random shotgun …