Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

MDJ Lynch, JD Neufeld - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
The profound influence of microorganisms on human life and global biogeochemical cycles
underlines the value of studying the biogeography of microorganisms, exploring microbial …

Soil enzymology: classical and molecular approaches

P Nannipieri, L Giagnoni, G Renella, E Puglisi… - Biology and fertility of …, 2012 - Springer
It is still problematic to use enzyme activities as indicators of soil functions because:(1)
enzyme assays determine potential and not real enzyme activities;(2) the meaning of …

Soil pH and temperature regulate assembly processes of abundant and rare bacterial communities in agricultural ecosystems

S Jiao, Y Lu - Environmental Microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The factors determining stochastic and deterministic processes that drive microbial
community structure, specifically the balance of abundant and rare bacterial taxa, remain …

Phylogenetically novel uncultured microbial cells dominate earth microbiomes

KG Lloyd, AD Steen, J Ladau, J Yin, L Crosby - MSystems, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
To describe a microbe's physiology, including its metabolism, environmental roles, and
growth characteristics, it must be grown in a laboratory culture. Unfortunately, many …

OptiClust, an improved method for assigning amplicon-based sequence data to operational taxonomic units

SL Westcott, PD Schloss - MSphere, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Assignment of 16S rRNA gene sequences to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) is a
computational bottleneck in the process of analyzing microbial communities. Although this …

Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

CJ Adler, K Dobney, LS Weyrich, J Kaidonis… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The importance of commensal microbes for human health is increasingly recognized,,,,, yet
the impacts of evolutionary changes in human diet and culture on commensal microbiota …

Biogeography and ecological diversity patterns of rare and abundant bacteria in oil‐contaminated soils

S Jiao, W Chen, G Wei - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Revealing the biogeographies and ecologies of rare and abundant microorganisms is
crucial to understand ecosystem diversity and function. In this study, we investigated the …

High throughput sequencing analysis of biogeographical distribution of bacterial communities in the black soils of northeast China

J Liu, Y Sui, Z Yu, YU Shi, H Chu, J Jin, X Liu… - Soil Biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Black soils (Mollisols) are one of the most important soil resources for maintaining food
security of China and are mainly distributed in northeast China. To understand which …

Pyrosequencing-based assessment of soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the continental scale

CL Lauber, M Hamady, R Knight… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soils harbor enormously diverse bacterial populations, and soil bacterial communities can
vary greatly in composition across space. However, our understanding of the specific …

Global biogeography and quantitative seasonal dynamics of Gemmatimonadetes in soil

JM DeBruyn, LT Nixon, MN Fawaz… - Applied and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacteria belonging to phylum Gemmatimonadetes comprise approximately 2% of soil
bacterial communities. However, little is known of their ecology due to a lack of cultured …