Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria play an important role in the nitrogen
cycle by coupling ammonium and nitrite to produce dinitrogen gas (N 2). Polymerase chain …

Enhancing soil phosphate solubilization is a promising strategy for agricultural sustainability,
while little is known about the mechanisms of how microorganisms cope with differing …

Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is a debilitating group of chronic diseases
including Crohn's Disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), which causes inflammation of …

In this work, we compare the resolution of V2-V3 and V3-V4 16S rRNA regions for the
purposes of estimating microbial community diversity using paired-end Illumina MiSeq …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the result of complex gene–environment interactions.
According to the World Health Organization, MDD is the leading cause of disability …

Abstract Background Prokaryotic 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences are widely used in
environmental microbiology and molecular evolution as reliable markers for the taxonomic …

Objective Our previous studies found that disturbances in gut microbiota might have a
causative role in the onset of major depressive disorder (MDD). The aim of this study was to …

Land application of animal manures is a major dissemination route for antibiotic resistance
genes (ARGs) in agro-ecosystems, which are a potential risk to public health if they migrate …

Irreversible climate change alters the decomposition and sequestration of soil carbon (C).
However, the stability of C components in soils with different initial organic matter contents …

In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in mosquito microbiome research,
leading to large amounts of data on different mosquito species, with various underlying …