Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

Viruses are by far the most abundant'lifeforms' in the oceans and are the reservoir of most of
the genetic diversity in the sea. The estimated 1030 viruses in the ocean, if stretched end to …

Although it is generally accepted that phages drive bacterial evolution, how these dynamics
play out in the wild remains poorly understood. We found that susceptibility to viral killing in …

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from healthy donor to patient is a treatment for
microbiome-associated diseases. Although the success of FMT requires donor bacteria to …

Coevolution between bacteriophages (phages) and their bacterial hosts occurs through
changes in resistance and counter-resistance mechanisms. To assess phage–host …

Bacteria comprise the most diverse domain of life on Earth, where they occupy nearly every
possible ecological niche and play key roles in biological and chemical processes. Studying …

Microbial communities are shaped by viral predators. Yet, resolving which viruses (phages)
and bacteria are interacting is a major challenge in the context of natural levels of microbial …

A decade after the beginning of the genomic era, the question of how genomics can
describe a bacterial species has not been fully addressed. Experimental data have shown …

The world's oceans contain a complex mixture of micro-organisms that are for the most part,
uncharacterized both genetically and biochemically. We report here a metagenomic study of …

The Human Microbiome Project provided a census of bacterial populations in healthy
individuals, but an understanding of the biomedical significance of this census has been …