In the last decade, powerful high-throughput sequencing approaches have emerged to
analyse microbial transcriptomes at a global scale. However, to date, applications of these …

Soil invertebrates are among the least understood metazoans on Earth. Thus far, the lack of
taxonomically broad and dense genomic resources has made it hard to thoroughly …

Motivation Viruses, with their ubiquitous presence and high diversity, play pivotal roles in
ecological systems and public health. Accurate identification of viruses in various …

Bacterial traceability refers to the use of a range of techniques to trace the origins and
transmission pathways of bacteria. It is crucial in controlling the spread of diseases …

Introduction Intraspecific genomic variability affects a species' adaptive potential toward
climatic conditions. Variation in gene content across populations and environments may …

The Special Issue brought together papers that highlighted the power of high-throughput
sequencing (HTS) data to address classic questions in ecology and evolution, and/or use …

Global biodiversity decline has prompted extensive research and debate on how
biodiversity loss affects ecosystem functioning. Microbial taxonomic and functional diversity …

Soil is a unique biological system with an abundant microflora that has very high microbial
diversity, capable of performing multiple key ecosystem functions. The detection of genes in …