All communities are dominated by a few species that account for most of the biomass and
carbon cycling. On the other hand, a large number of species are represented by only a few …

Statement of Retraction We have retracted the following article: Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, B.
Ravindran, Surendra Sarsaiya, Hongyu Chen, Steven Wainaina, Ekta Singh, Tao Liu, Sunil …

Aerosolization of soil-dust and organic aggregates in sea spray facilitates the long-range
transport of bacteria, and likely viruses across the free atmosphere. Although long-distance …

Airborne microbes (bacteria, archaea, protists, and fungi) were surveyed over a 7-y period
via high-throughput massive sequencing of 16S and 18S rRNA genes in rain and snow …

Many studies have shown that species sorting, that is, the selection by local environmental
conditions is important for the composition and assembly of bacterial communities. On the …

The atmosphere plays a fundamental role in the transport of microbes across the planet but
it is often neglected as a microbial habitat. Although the ocean represents two thirds of the …

Given that epiphytic microbes are often found in large population sizes on plants, we tested
the hypothesis that plants are quantitatively important local sources of airborne …

The atmospheric dispersion of bacteria over long distances is an important facet of microbial
ecology. Certain groups of dispersed bacteria can adapt to their new location and affect …

Transports of bacteria in the atmosphere relate to climate and global hydrological cycles by
acting as nuclei of ice-cloud formation, and affect the ecosystems and public health in the …

We aimed to identify phylogenetic community patterns in abundant planktonic bacteria
(Alpha-, Beta-, and Gammaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Cyanobacteria, and …