Global environmental contamination with a complex mixture of xenobiotics has become a
major environmental issue worldwide. Many xenobiotic compounds severely impact the …

The cultivation of bacteria is highly biased toward a few phylogenetic groups. Many of the
currently underexplored bacterial lineages likely have novel biosynthetic pathways and …

Cold-active enzymes constitute an attractive resource for biotechnological applications.
Their high catalytic activity at temperatures below 25° C makes them excellent biocatalysts …

Water is vital for many biological processes and is essential for all living organisms.
However, numerous macroorganisms and microorganisms have adapted to survive in …

Highlights•Emerging complimentary approaches to study diverse anaerobic digestion
communities.•Metagenomics enables reconstruction of genomes to explore functional …

We face major agricultural challenges that remain a threat for global food security. Soil
microbes harbor enormous potentials to provide sustainable and economically favorable …

A highly diverse T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is a fundamental property of an effective
immune system, and is associated with efficient control of viral infections and other …

Planktonic bacteria dominate surface ocean biomass and influence global biogeochemical
processes, but remain poorly characterized owing to difficulties in cultivation. Using large …

Many microbial ecologists have described the composition of microbial communities in a
plenitude of environments, which has greatly improved our basic understanding of …

Technological advances are enabling the sequencing of environmental DNA and RNA at
increasing depth and with decreasing costs. Metagenomic and transcriptomic analysis of …