Numerous microbial communities show synergistic and antagonistic interactions among
themselves, resulting in benefit and harm to either or both the associated members. The …

Soil microbial communities are responsive to biochar amendments. As the residence time of
biochar in soil is expected to be hundreds to thousands of years, the changes in microbial …

Advances in DNA sequencing technology have revolutionized the field of molecular analysis
of trophic interactions, and it is now possible to recover counts of food DNA sequences from …

The quantification of the biological diversity in environmental samples using high‐
throughput DNA sequencing is hindered by the PCR bias caused by variable primer …

The human intestinal microbiota is essential to the health of the host and plays a role in
nutrition, development, metabolism, pathogen resistance, and regulation of immune …

Background DNA extraction is an essential step in all cultivation-independent approaches to
characterize microbial diversity, including that associated with the human body. A …

Please cite this paper as: Lamont R, Sobel J, Akins R, Hassan S, Chaiworapongsa T,
Kusanovic J, Romero R. The vaginal microbiome: new information about genital tract flora …

Coral microbiology is an emerging field, driven largely by a desire to understand, and
ultimately prevent, the worldwide destruction of coral reefs. The mucus layer, skeleton and …

High-throughput DNA sequencing has the potential to accelerate species discovery if it is
able to recognize evolutionary entities from sequence data that are comparable to species …

Several characteristics of the 16S rRNA gene, such as its essential function, ubiquity, and
evolutionary properties, have allowed it to become the most commonly used molecular …