Microorganisms rule the functioning of our planet and each one of the individual
macroscopic living creature. Nevertheless, microbial activity and growth status have always …

Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

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

A growing awareness of the diversity and ubiquity of microbes (eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and
viruses) associated with larger 'host'organisms has led to the realisation that many diseases …

Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

Lakes are heterogeneous ecosystems inhabited by a rich microbiome whose genomic
diversity is poorly defined. We present a continental-scale study of metagenomes …

Microdiversity can lead to different ecotypes within the same species. These are assumed to
provide stability in time and space to those species. However, the role of microdiversity in …

Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

The heterogeneous nature of lotic habitats plays an important role in the complex ecological
and evolutionary processes that structure the microbial communities within them. Due to …

Background The phytoplankton spring bloom in freshwater habitats is a complex, recurring,
and dynamic ecological spectacle that unfolds at multiple biological scales. Although …