The gut microbiota has an important role in the maintenance of human health and in disease
pathogenesis. This importance was realized through the advent of omics technologies and …

Diverse microbial communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses and single-celled eukaryotes
have crucial roles in the environment and in human health. However, microbes are …

True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

Diet-microbe interactions play an important role in modulating the early-life microbiota, with
Bifidobacterium strains and species dominating the gut of breast-fed infants. Here, we …

There is increasing interest in employing shotgun sequencing, rather than amplicon
sequencing, to analyze microbiome samples. Typical projects may involve hundreds of …

Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has always been considered to be
a two-step process catalysed by chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms oxidizing either …

Normal platelet function is critical to blood hemostasis and maintenance of a closed
circulatory system. Heightened platelet reactivity, however, is associated with …

Nitrification is a two-step process where ammonia is first oxidized to nitrite by ammonia-
oxidizing bacteria and/or archaea, and subsequently to nitrate by nitrite-oxidizing bacteria …

To the Editor: MetaPhlAn (metagenomic phylogenetic analysis) 1 is a method for
characterizing the taxonomic profiles of whole-metagenome shotgun (WMS) samples that …

The advent of next generation sequencing (NGS) has enabled investigations of the gut
microbiome with unprecedented resolution and throughput. This has stimulated the …