The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling
organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing …

Short-amplicon 16S rRNA gene sequencing is currently the method of choice for studies
investigating microbiomes. However, comparative studies on differences in procedures are …

The present scenario of agricultural sector is dependent hugely on the use of chemical-
based fertilizers and pesticides that impact the nutritional quality, health status, and …

Metagenomic sequencing is revolutionizing the detection and characterization of microbial
species, and a wide variety of software tools are available to perform taxonomic …

Diverse microbial communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses and single-celled eukaryotes
have crucial roles in the environment and in human health. However, microbes are …

Marker-gene and metagenomic sequencing have profoundly expanded our ability to
measure biological communities. But the measurements they provide differ from the truth …

Advances in DNA sequencing technology have vastly improved the ability of researchers to
explore the microbial inhabitants of the human body. Unfortunately, while these studies have …

The development and continuous improvement of high-throughput sequencing platforms
have stimulated interest in the study of complex microbial communities. Currently, the most …

Microbiome research has grown rapidly over the past decade, with a proliferation of new
methods that seek to make sense of large, complex data sets. Here, we survey two of the …