Microbiomes are ubiquitous and are found in the ocean, the soil, and in/on other living
organisms. Changes in the microbiome can impact the health of the environmental niche in …

Functional diversity is increasingly recognized by microbial ecologists as the essential link
between biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functioning, determining the trophic …

Microbiome studies have become routine in biomedical, agricultural and environmental
sciences with diverse aims, including diversity profiling, functional characterization, and …

MicrobiomeAnalyst is an easy-to-use, web-based platform for comprehensive analysis of
common data outputs generated from current microbiome studies. It enables researchers …

The widespread application of next-generation sequencing technologies has revolutionized
microbiome research by enabling high-throughput profiling of the genetic contents of …

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) result in diarrhea and abdominal pain with further
potential complications such as tissue fibrosis and stenosis. Animal models help in …

Abstract Microplastics (< 5 mm) exhibit intrinsic features such as density, hydrophobic
surface, or high surface/volume ratio, that are known to promote microbial colonization and …

Molecular microbial ecology investigations often employ large marker gene datasets, for
example, ribosomal RNAs, to represent the occurrence of single-cell genomes in microbial …

Background In a series of studies of the gut microbiome,“enterotypes” have been used to
classify gut microbiome samples that cluster together in ordination analyses. Initially, three …

Over the past few years, microbiome research has dramatically reshaped our understanding
of human biology. New insights range from an enhanced understanding of how microbes …