The human oral microbiota is highly diverse and has a complex ecology, comprising
bacteria, microeukaryotes, archaea and viruses. These communities have elaborate and …

A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

Advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools have dramatically increased
the recovery rate of microbial genomes from metagenomic data. Assessing the quality of …

Minerals are widely assumed to protect organic matter (OM) from degradation in the
environment, promoting the persistence of carbon in soil and sediments. In this Review, we …

Despite the surge of microbial genome data, experimental testing is important to confirm
inferences about the cell biology, ecological roles and evolution of microorganisms. As the …

Microorganisms play crucial roles in water recycling, pollution removal and resource
recovery in the wastewater industry. The structure of these microbial communities is …

Protein modeling is an increasingly popular area of machine learning research. Semi-
supervised learning has emerged as an important paradigm in protein modeling due to the …

Methane is the final product of the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter. The
conversion of organic matter to methane (methanogenesis) as a mechanism for energy …

Generalists can survive in many environments, whereas specialists are restricted to a single
environment. Although a classical concept in ecology, niche breadth has remained …

Current-day metagenomics analyses increasingly involve de novo taxonomic classification
of long DNA sequences and metagenome-assembled genomes. Here, we show that the …