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 …

Determining the structure and dynamics of microbial communities is a core component of
microbial ecology. Traditionally, microbiologists used timeconsuming cultivation-based …

For over 140 years, lichens have been regarded as a symbiosis between a single fungus,
usually an ascomycete, and a photosynthesizing partner. Other fungi have long been known …

The most abundant class of bacterial ribosomal RNA genes detected in seawater DNA by
gene cloning belongs to SAR11—an α-proteobacterial clade. Other than indications of their …

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled
oligonucleotide probes and tyramide signal amplification, also known as catalyzed reporter …

Denitrification is essential to the removal of nitrogen from wastewater during treatment, yet
an understanding of the diversity of the active denitrifying bacteria responsible in full‐scale …

Fungi are the principal degraders of biomass in terrestrial ecosystems and establish
important interactions with plants and animals,,. However, our current understanding of …

This study describes reconstruction of two highly unusual archaeal genomes by de novo
metagenomic assembly of multiple, deeply sequenced libraries from surface waters of Lake …

The most definitive manual of microbes in air, water, and soil and their impact on human
health and welfare.• Incorporates a summary of the latest methodology used to study the …

In a search for cosmopolitan phylogenetic clusters of freshwater bacteria, we recovered a
total of 190 full and partial 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequences from three different lakes …