Vibrios are ubiquitous bacteria in aquatic systems, especially marine ones, and belong to
the Gammaproteobacteria class, the most diverse class of Gram-negative bacteria. The main …

Marine microbial communities are engines of globally important processes, such as the
marine carbon, nitrogen and sulphur cycles. Recent data on the structures of these …

Despite the important roles of soil microbes, especially the most diverse rare taxa in
maintaining community diversity and multifunctionality, how different climate regimes alter …

Microbiome sequencing data often need to be normalized due to differences in read depths,
and recommendations for microbiome analyses generally warn against using proportions or …

Unraveling the relative importance of ecological processes regulating microbial community
structure is a central goal in microbial ecology. Here, we used high-throughput sequencing …

Salinity is a major factor controlling the distribution of biota in aquatic systems, and most
aquatic multicellular organisms are either adapted to life in saltwater or freshwater …

Vibrios are ubiquitous and abundant in the aquatic environment. A high abundance of
vibrios is also detected in tissues and/or organs of various marine algae and animals, eg …

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 …

Understanding the role of microbes in the oceans has focused on taxa that occur in high
abundance; yet most of the marine microbial diversity is largely determined by a long tail of …

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