Ruminant animals house a dense and diverse community of microorganisms in their rumen,
an enlarged compartment in their stomach, which provides a supportive environment for the …

As blooms of cyanobacteria expand and intensify in freshwater systems globally, there is
increasing interest in their ecological effects. In addition to being public health hazards …

Freshwater bacteria are at the hub of biogeochemical cycles and control water quality in
lakes. Despite this, little is known about the identity and ecology of functionally significant …

Microbes are difficult to culture. Consequently, the primary source of information about a
fundamental evolutionary topic, life's diversity, is the environmental distribution of gene …

Bacteria have important roles in freshwater food webs and in the cycling of elements in the
ecosystem. Yet specific ecological features of individual phylogenetic groups and …

The temporal and spatial characteristics of urban river bacterial communities help us
understand the feedback mechanism of bacteria to changes in the aquatic environment. The …

Human activities are causing a global proliferation of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms
(CHABs), yet we have limited understanding of how these events affect freshwater bacterial …

In the rRNA-based tree of life four bacterial phyla, comprising the Planctomycetes,
Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae and Lentisphaerae, form together with the candidate phyla …

Rivers are among the most threatened freshwater ecosystems, and anthropogenic activities
are affecting both river structures and water quality. While assessing the organisms can …

Until recently, the evolutionary relationships between marine and freshwater microbes were
unclear, but the use of molecular phylogenies is beginning to shed light on this subject. An …