Use of culture-independent studies have greatly increased our understanding of the
microbiology of hypersaline lakes (the Dead Sea, Great Salt Lake) and saltern ponds in …

High-throughput shotgun metagenomics sequencing has enabled the profiling of myriad
natural communities. These data are commonly used to identify gene families and pathways …

The extent to which non-host-associated bacterial communities exhibit small-scale
biogeographic patterns in their distribution remains unclear. Our investigation of …

Background Free-living microorganisms have long been assumed to have ubiquitous
distributions with little biogeographic signature because they typically exhibit high dispersal …

Human milk contains antimicrobial factors such as lysozyme and lactoferrin that are thought
to contribute to the development of an intestinal microbiota beneficial to host health …

The number of functional traits of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) microbial community
(ie functional richness) is thought to be an important determinant of its overall functional …

Over geologic time, the water in the Bonneville basin has risen and fallen, most dramatically
as freshwater Lake Bonneville lost enormous volume 15,000–13,000 years ago and …

Abstract The Monegros Desert contains one of the largest sets of inland saline lakes in
Europe constituting a threatened landscape of great scientific and ecological value with …

We analyzed the prokaryotic community structure of a saltern pond with 21% total salts
located in Isla Cristina, Huelva, Southwest Spain, close to the Atlantic ocean coast. For this …

A railroad causeway across Great Salt Lake, Utah (GSL), has restricted water flow since its
construction in 1959, resulting in a more saline North Arm (NA; 24%–31% salinity) and a …