Microbiomes play a critical role in promoting a range of host functions. Microbiome function,
in turn, is dependent on its community composition. Yet, how microbiome taxa are …

Bacterial assemblages from subsurface (100 m depth), meso‐(200–1000 m depth) and
bathy‐pelagic (below 1000 m depth) zones at 10 stations along a North Atlantic Ocean …

Reliance on fishmeal as a primary protein source is among the chief economic and
environmental concerns in aquaculture today. Fishmeal-based feeds often require harvest …

Our current understanding of Antarctic soils is derived from direct culture on selective media,
biodiversity studies based on clone library construction and analysis, quantitative PCR …

Background Recent advances in sequencing strategies make possible unprecedented
depth and scale of sampling for molecular detection of microbial diversity. Two major …

Understanding biotic versus abiotic forces that shape community structure is a fundamental
aim of microbial ecology. The acidic and heavy metal extreme Río Tinto (RT) in …

The assembling of bacterial communities in conventional activated sludge (CAS) bioreactors
was thought, until recently, to be chaotic and mostly unpredictable. Studies done over the …

Antimony (Sb) and copper (Cu) are toxic heavy metals that are associated with a wide
variety of minerals. Sb (III)-oxidizing bacteria that convert the toxic Sb (III) to the less toxic Sb …

ABSTRACT A legacy of coal mining in the Appalachians has provided a unique opportunity
to study the ecological niches of iron-oxidizing microorganisms. Mine-impacted, anoxic …

Abstract Extremely acidic (pH 0–1.5) Acidithiobacillus-dominated biofilms known as snottites
are found in sulfide-rich caves around the world. Given the extreme geochemistry and …