Although genomics has classically focused on pure, easy-to-obtain samples, such as
microbes that grow readily in culture or large animals and plants, these organisms represent …

As random shotgun metagenomic projects proliferate and become the dominant source of
publicly available sequence data, procedures for the best practices in their execution and …

The H2-oxidizing lithoautotrophic bacterium Ralstonia eutropha H16 is a metabolically
versatile organism capable of subsisting, in the absence of organic growth substrates, on H2 …

Defining the gene products that play an essential role in an organism's functional repertoire
is vital to understanding the system level organization of living cells. We used a genetic …

The cohort of the ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the phylum Thaumarchaeota is a
diverse, widespread and functionally important group of microorganisms in many …

Complete genome DNA sequence and analysis is presented for Wolbachia, the obligate
alpha-proteobacterial endosymbiont required for fertility and survival of the human filarial …

The ability of a bacterial cell to monitor and adaptively respond to its environment is crucial
for survival. After one‐and two‐component systems, extracytoplasmic function (ECF) σ …

Background Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a group of gram-positive, lactic acid producing
Firmicutes. They have been extensively used in food fermentations, including the production …

Using comparative analysis of genes, operons, and regulatory elements, we describe the
cobalamin (vitamin B 12) biosynthetic pathway in available prokaryotic genomes. Here we …

The normal, unmodified glycan strands of bacterial peptidoglycan consist of alternating
residues of β-1, 4-linked N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine. In many species …