We present an extension of the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS)
standard for reporting sequences of uncultivated virus genomes. Minimum Information about …

Recent advances have made it possible to analyze high-throughput marker-gene
sequencing data without resorting to the customary construction of molecular operational …

Viruses numerically dominate our oceans; however, we have only just begun to document
the diversity, host range and infection dynamics of marine viruses, as well as the subsequent …

Advances in the analysis of amplicon sequence datasets have introduced a methodological
shift in how research teams investigate microbial biodiversity, away from sequence identity …

Bacteria are essential parts of ecosystems and are the most diverse organisms on the
planet. Yet, we still do not know which habitats support the highest diversity of bacteria …

Recent discussion focuses on the best method for delineating microbial taxa, based on
either exact sequence variants (ESVs) or traditional operational taxonomic units (OTUs) of …

Traditional cultivation approaches in microbiology are labor-intensive, low-throughput, and
yield biased sampling of environmental microbes due to ecological and evolutionary factors …

Our ability to describe the highly diverse pool of low abundance populations present in
natural microbial communities is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Yet we currently lack …

Microdiversity can lead to different ecotypes within the same species. These are assumed to
provide stability in time and space to those species. However, the role of microdiversity in …

Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades
have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using …