The great majority of microbial species remains uncultured, severely limiting their taxonomic
characterization and thus communication among scientists. Although Candidatus was …

This review presents an update on the current knowledge of the secondary metabolite
potential of the major fungal species used in industrial biotechnology, ie, Aspergillus niger …

Nucleotide-based intergenomic similarities are useful to understand how viruses are related
with each other and to classify them. Here we have developed VIRIDIC, which implements …

Genomic and metagenomic analyses are increasingly becoming commonplace in several
areas of biological research, but recurrent specialized analyses are frequently reported as in …

Genus assignment is fundamental in the characterization of microbes, yet there is currently
no unambiguous way to demarcate genera solely using standard genomic relatedness …

Species is the basic unit of biological diversity. However, among the different microbiological
disciplines there is an important degree of disagreement as to what this unit may be. In this …

Members of the phylum Acidobacteria are abundant and ubiquitous across soils. We
performed a large‐scale comparative genome analysis spanning subdivisions 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 …

Bacteriophages play key roles in microbial evolution 1, 2, marine nutrient cycling 3 and
human disease 4. Phages are genetically diverse, and their genome architectures are …

Chloroflexi members are ubiquitous and have been extensively studied; however, the
evolution and metabolic pathways of Chloroflexi members have long been debated. In the …

Burkholderia sensu lato is a large and complex group, containing pathogenic,
phytopathogenic, symbiotic and non-symbiotic strains from a very wide range of …