Microbial networks are an increasingly popular tool to investigate microbial community
structure, as they integrate multiple types of information and may represent systems-level …

Microbial ecology as a scientific field is fundamentally driven by technological advance. The
past decade's revolution in DNA sequencing cost and throughput has made it possible for …

Background Recent evidence suggests a role for the microbiome in pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) aetiology and progression. Objective To explore the faecal and …

The gastrointestinal tract is abundantly colonized by microbes, yet the translocation of oral
species to the intestine is considered a rare aberrant event, and a hallmark of disease. By …

Correlation analyses are often included in bioinformatic pipelines as methods for inferring
taxon–taxon interactions. In this perspective, we highlight the pitfalls of inferring interactions …

Background Gut microbes influence their hosts in many ways, in particular by modulating the
impact of diet. These effects have been studied most extensively in humans and mice. In this …

Microplastics have been proposed as emerging threats for terrestrial systems as they may
potentially alter the physicochemical/biophysical soil environments. Due to the variety of …

Despite accumulating data on microbial biogeographic patterns in terrestrial and aquatic
environments, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how these patterns establish …

Background The ocean microbiota modulates global biogeochemical cycles and changes in
its configuration may have large-scale consequences. Yet, the underlying ecological …

Aim Ecological communities that exist closer together in space are generally more
compositionally similar than those far apart, as defined by the distance–decay of similarity …