Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) include a group of organic priority pollutants of
critical environmental and public health concern due to their toxic, genotoxic, mutagenic …

Soil, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home
to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for …

Plastics pollution represents a global environmental crisis. In response, microbes are
evolving the capacity to utilize synthetic polymers as carbon and energy sources. Recently …

Global economies depend on the use of fossil‐fuel‐based polymers with 360–400 million
metric tons of synthetic polymers being produced per year. Unfortunately, an estimated 60 …

The genus Burkholderia contains large number of diverse species which include many
clinically important organisms, phytopathogens, as well as environmental species. However …

Background Orthology analysis is an important part of data analysis in many areas of
bioinformatics such as comparative genomics and molecular phylogenetics. The ever …

Approximately 10% of bacterial genomes are split between two or more large DNA
fragments, a genome architecture referred to as a multipartite genome. This multipartite …

The ability of microorganisms to withstand long periods with extremely low energy input has
gained increasing scientific attention in recent years. Starvation experiments in the …

Aromatic compounds are among the most prevalent and persistent pollutants in the
environment. Petroleum-contaminated soil and sediment commonly contain a mixture of …

Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer.
Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functions, bacterial genomes also …