ABSTRACT The Gram-negative Shewanella bacterial genus currently includes about 70
species of mostly aquatic γ-proteobacteria, which were isolated around the globe in a …

With the advance of sequencing technologies, the landscape of genomic analysis has been
transformed, by moving from single strain to species (or even higher taxa)-wide genomic …

Corrosion of carbon steel by microorganisms recovered from corroded seal rings at an
offshore floating production facility was investigated. Microbial diversity profiling revealed …

Elizabethkingia anophelis is a human pathogen responsible for severe nosocomial
infections in neonates and immunocompromised patients. The significantly higher mortality …

Members of the predatory Myxococcales (myxobacteria) possess large genomes, undergo
multicellular development, and produce diverse secondary metabolites, which are being …

Background Shewanella xiamenensis, widely distributed in natural environments, has long
been considered as opportunistic pathogen. Recently, significant changes in the resistance …

Aims L‐tryptophan is an essential aromatic amino acid for the growth and development of
animals. Studies about enteric L‐tryptophan‐producing bacteria are scarce. In this report …

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is a beneficial human gut microbe and a candidate for next-
generation probiotics. With probiotics now being used in clinical treatments, concerns about …

Some bacteria and archaea have evolved the means to use extracellular electron donors
and acceptors for energy metabolism, a phenomenon broadly known as extracellular …

Compared with conventional comparative genomics, the recent studies in pan-genomics
have provided further insights into species genomic dynamics, taxonomy and identification …