Populations are fundamental units of ecology and evolution, but can we define them for
bacteria and archaea in a biologically meaningful way? Here, we review why population …

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a Gram‐negative bacterium that is naturally present in the marine
environment. Oysters, which are water filter feeders, may accumulate this pathogen in their …

Controlling foodborne diseases requires robust outbreak detection and a comprehensive
understanding of outbreak dynamics. Here, by integrating large-scale phylogenomic …

Background Probiotics have been used to regulate the gut microbiota and physiology in
various contexts, but their precise mechanisms of action remain unclear. Results By …

Very little is known about how microbiome interactions shape the horizontal transfer of
antibiotic resistance genes in aquacultural environment. To this end, we first conducted 16S …

Global warming is increasing human exposure to pathogens and has already had an impact
on human health. Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a major pathogen causing foodborne illness …

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading bacterial cause of seafood-associated gastroenteritis
worldwide. Moreover, infections and outbreaks caused by V. parahaemolyticus has kept …

Non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae isolates have been found associated with diarrheal disease
globally, however, the global picture of non-toxigenic infections is largely unknown. Among …

Quorum sensing is a process of chemical communication that bacteria use to track cell
density and coordinate gene expression across a population. Bacteria-infecting viruses …

Although the beneficial effects of probiotics are likely to be associated with their ability to
colonize the gut, little is known about the characteristics of good colonizers. In a systematic …