In health, indigenous polymicrobial communities at mucosal surfaces maintain an ecological
balance via both inter‐microbial and host‐microbial interactions that promote their own and …

Purpose Human microbiome studies are within the realm of compositional data with the
absolute abundances of microbes not recoverable from sequence data alone. In …

While interactions between roots and microorganisms have been intensively studied, we
know little about interactions among root‐associated microbes. We used random matrix …

Plant-associated microorganisms have been shown to critically affect host physiology and
performance, suggesting that evolution and ecology of plants and animals can only be …

Background Network is a useful way for presenting many types of biological data including
protein-protein interactions, gene regulations, cellular pathways, and signal transductions …

Due to the persistence of metals in the ecosystem and their threat to all living organisms,
effects of heavy metal on soil microbial communities were widely studied. However, little was …

The oral microbiome is incredibly complex with the average adult harboring about 50–100
billion bacteria in the oral cavity, which represent about 200 predominant bacterial species …

Periodontal diseases are initiated by bacterial species living in polymicrobial biofilms at or
below the gingival margin and progress largely as a result of the inflammation elicited by …

Co-occurrence patterns are used in ecology to explore interactions between organisms and
environmental effects on coexistence within biological communities. Analysis of co …

The lung microbiome, which is believed to be stable or at least transient in healthy people, is
now considered as a poly-microorganism component contributing to disease pathogenesis …