The ribosomal-RNA (rRNA) approach to microbial evolution and ecology has become an
integral part of environmental microbiology. Based on the patchy conservation of rRNA …

Although genomics has classically focused on pure, easy-to-obtain samples, such as
microbes that grow readily in culture or large animals and plants, these organisms represent …

Marine Crenarchaeota are the most abundant single group of prokaryotes in the ocean, but
their physiology and role in marine biogeochemical cycles are unknown. Recently, a …

The small-subunit rRNA (SSU rRNA) gene is the key marker in molecular ecology for all
domains of life, but it is largely absent from metagenome-assembled genomes that often are …

With increasing energy prices and the drive to reduce CO2 emissions, food industries are
challenged to find new technologies in order to reduce energy consumption, to meet legal …

Interest in the expanding catalog of uncultivated microorganisms, increasing recognition of
heterogeneity among seemingly similar cells, and technological advances in whole-genome …

As random shotgun metagenomic projects proliferate and become the dominant source of
publicly available sequence data, procedures for the best practices in their execution and …

The still poorly explored world of microbial functioning is about to be uncovered by a
combined application of old and new technologies. Bacteria, especially, are still in the dark …

Despite the development of several cultivation methods, the rate of discovery of
microorganisms that are yet-to-be cultivated outpaces the rate of isolating and cultivating …

Background Microbes are main drivers of biogeochemical cycles in oceans and lakes.
Although the genome is a foundation for understanding the metabolism, ecology and …