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Salinity determines performance, functional populations, and microbial ecology in consortia attenuating organohalide pollutants
Organohalide pollutants are prevalent in coastal regions due to extensive intervention by anthropogenic activities, threatening public health and...
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Planet in Peril: Unveiling the Microbial Consequences of Environmental Degradation on Human Health Through Omics Approaches
Technological advancements in high-throughput sequencing, reducing sequencing errors, and computationally intensive downstream analyses becoming more...
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Understanding Viral Impacts in Soil Microbial Ecology Through the Persistence and Decay of Infectious Bacteriophages
Marine bacteriophages have been well characterized in terms of decay rates, population dynamics in relation to their hosts, and their impacts on...
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Microbial Metagenomics Developments for Environmental and Public Health Monitoring
Microbial metagenomics has transformed surveillance in the fields of community health and the environment by providing previously unobtainable...
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Identifying keystone species in microbial communities using deep learning
Previous studies suggested that microbial communities can harbour keystone species whose removal can cause a dramatic shift in microbiome structure...
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Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities
Microbial communities are shaped by environmental metabolites, but the principles that govern whether different communities will converge or diverge...
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Ecology of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs on a fine-scale taxonomic resolution in Adriatic Sea unravelled by unsupervised neural network
BackgroundAerobic anoxygenic phototrophs are metabolically highly active, diverse and widespread polyphyletic members of bacterioplankton whose...
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Unbalanced diets enhance the complexity of gut microbial network but destabilize its stability and resistance
Stability is a fundamental ecological property of the gut microbiota and is associated with host health. Numerous studies have shown that unbalanced...
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Microbial Catabolic Activity: Methods, Pertinence, and Potential Interest for Improving Microbial Inoculant Efficiency
Microbial catabolic activity (MCA) defined as the degrading activity of microorganisms toward various organic compounds for their growth and energy...
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Plasmid-encoded toxin defence mediates mutualistic microbial interactions
Gut environments harbour dense microbial ecosystems in which plasmids are widely distributed. Plasmids facilitate the exchange of genetic material...
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Genome–microbiome interplay provides insight into the determinants of the human blood metabolome
Variation in the blood metabolome is intimately related to human health. However, few details are known about the interplay between genetics and the...
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Beyond Daphnia: a plea for a more inclusive and unifying approach to freshwater zooplankton ecology
Zooplankton plays a pivotal role in lentic water bodies, linking planktonic primary producers to higher trophic levels and being a cornerstone of the...
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Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle
One-quarter of photosynthesis-derived carbon on Earth rapidly cycles through a set of short-lived seawater metabolites that are generated from the...
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Mitochondrial dysfunction promotes microbial composition that negatively impacts on ulcerative colitis development and progression
Recent evidence demonstrates potential links between mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). In addition, bidirectional...
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Metagenomics, Microbial Diversity, and Environmental Cleanup
The rapid industrialization, population surge, and modern lifestyles have led to increasing pollution load at an alarming rate due to persistent and...
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Molecular Approaches of Microbial Diversity in Agricultural Soil
Soil presents a highly heterogeneous medium, and the different components of the soil (sand, silt, clay, and organic matter) enable various habitats...
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Microbial Communities: Structural and Functional Analyses with Molecular Biological Approach
Identification and classification are now largely based on sequence analyses of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) or the rDNA encoding it, as well as genes of...
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Microbial ecology of the newly discovered serpentinite-hosted Old City hydrothermal field (southwest Indian ridge)
Lost City (mid-Atlantic ridge) is a unique oceanic hydrothermal field where carbonate-brucite chimneys are colonized by a single phylotype of...
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A general approach for quantifying microbial effects on plant competition
PurposeA growing perspective in plant ecology highlights the ways that microbial interactions can promote or hinder plant coexistence. Towards this...
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The conversion of mycorrhizal types closely associated with the changes in microbial keystone taxa and potential function in subtropical forests
AimsMycorrhizal fungi and microbial community play crucial roles in soil carbon (C) cycling within forest ecosystems. The various types of...
