Microbial consortia have been used in biotechnology processes, including fermentation,
waste treatment, and agriculture, for millennia. Today, synthetic biologists are increasingly …

Microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists and archaea live as communities
in complex and contiguous environments. They engage in numerous inter-and intra …

There is a rich amount of information in co‐occurrence (presence–absence) data that could
be used to understand community assembly. This proposition first envisioned by Forbes …

The advent of large-scale microbiome studies affords newfound analytical opportunities to
understand how these communities of microbes operate and relate to their environment …

The combined effect of mutual association within the co-inhabiting microbes in human body
is known to play a major role in determining health status of individuals. The differential …

Several studies have demonstrated the relevance of endophytic bacteria on the growth and
fitness of agriculturally-relevant plants. To our knowledge, however, little information is …

Microorganisms promised to lead the bio-based revolution for a more sustainable
agriculture. Beneficial microorganisms could be a valid alternative to the use of chemical …

Despite desert ecosystem being crucial to our understanding of natural geography, species
evolution and global climate change, there is limited information on the dynamics of their …

Sanitizing the water sources of local communities is important to control the spread of
microbial resistance genes, especially those for water-borne illnesses. The activities of …

Bacterial diseases cause production failures in shrimp aquacultures. To understand
environmental conditions and bacterial community dynamics contributing to white faeces …