Bacteria and archaea have evolved defense and regulatory mechanisms to cope with
various environmental stressors, including virus attack. This arsenal has been expanded by …

Dementia is a comprehensive category of brain diseases that is great enough to affect a
person's daily functioning. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, which …

The improvement of sequencing technologies has facilitated generalization of metagenomic
sequencing, which has become a standard procedure for analyzing the structure and …

The core microbiome, which refers to a set of consistent microbial features across
populations, is of major interest in microbiome research and has been addressed by …

Background Analyses of DNA sequences from cultivated microorganisms have revealed
genome-wide, taxa-specific nucleotide compositional characteristics, referred to as genome …

Microbial archaeology is flourishing in the era of high-throughput sequencing, revealing the
agents behind devastating historical plagues, identifying the cryptic movements of …

Since the invention of the Petri dish, there have been continuous efforts to improve efficiency
in microbial cultivation. These efforts were devoted to the attainment for diverse growth …

Microbial communities respond and quickly adapt to disturbance and have central roles in
ecosystem function. Yet, the many roles of coral-associated microbial communities are not …

Climate change is strongly affecting high‐mountain soils and warming in particular is
associated with pronounced changes in microbe‐mediated C and N cycling, affecting plant …

Metagenomic approaches are now commonly used in microbial ecology to study microbial
communities in more detail, including many strains that cannot be cultivated in the …