Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil
microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial biogeochemistry, driving the turnover of soil …

Abstract The Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD)(https://gold. jgi. doe. gov/) is a manually
curated, daily updated collection of genome projects and their metadata accumulated from …

The human microbiome influences the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of commonly
prescribed drugs. Designing precision medicine approaches that incorporate microbial …

The life history strategies of soil microbes determine their metabolic potential and their
response to environmental changes. Yet these strategies remain poorly understood. Here …

Maximal growth rate is a basic parameter of microbial lifestyle that varies over several orders
of magnitude, with doubling times ranging from a matter of minutes to multiple days. Growth …

Many microorganisms are auxotrophic—unable to synthesize the compounds they require
for growth. With this work, we quantify the prevalence of amino acid auxotrophies across a …

Streptomyces is a drought-tolerant bacterial genus in soils, which forms close associations
with plants to provide host resilience to drought stress. Here we synthesize the emerging …

Deciphering microbiota functions is crucial to predict ecosystem sustainability in response to
global change. High-throughput sequencing at the individual or community level has …

The environmental preferences of many microbes remain undetermined. This is the case for
bacterial pH preferences, which can be difficult to predict a priori despite the importance of …

Soil microbiomes are highly diverse, and to improve their representation in biogeochemical
models, microbial genome data can be leveraged to infer key functional traits. By integrating …