The human intestinal microbiome is a microbial ecosystem that expresses as many as 100
times more genes than the human host, thereby constituting an important component of the …

Saline soils are a major issue for agriculture because salt turns agronomically useful lands
into unproductive areas. The United Nations Environment Program estimates that …

Small RNA regulators (sRNAs) have been identified in a wide range of bacteria and found to
play critical regulatory roles in many processes. The major families of sRNAs include true …

Worldwide crop productivity hampers severely due to the adverse effects of salinity. Global
warming causes a rapid escalation of the salt-affected area, and new agricultural land is …

High and changing salt concentrations represent major abiotic factors limiting the growth of
microorganisms. During their long evolution, cyanobacteria have adapted to aquatic habitats …

SUMMARY A substantial amount of antisense transcription is a hallmark of gene expression
in eukaryotes. However, antisense transcription was first demonstrated in bacteria almost 50 …

Transcriptome-wide studies in eukaryotes have been instrumental in the characterization of
fundamental regulatory mechanisms for more than a decade. By contrast, in prokaryotes …

There has been an increasing interest in cyanobacteria because these photosynthetic
organisms convert solar energy into biomass and because of their potential for the …

Abstract Background Structured noncoding RNAs perform many functions that are essential
for protein synthesis, RNA processing, and gene regulation. Structured RNAs can be …

RNA-seq and especially differential RNA-seq-type transcriptomic analyses (dRNA-seq) are
powerful analytical tools, as they not only provide insights into gene expression changes but …