The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

River ecosystems are very important parts of the water cycle and an excellent habitat, food,
and drinking water source for many organisms, including humans. Antibiotics are emerging …

Advances in the analysis of amplicon sequence datasets have introduced a methodological
shift in how research teams investigate microbial biodiversity, away from sequence identity …

Associations between gut microbiota and colorectal cancer (CRC) have been widely
investigated. However, the replicable markers for early-stage adenoma diagnosis across …

Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) can promote host defense, chronic inflammation, or tissue
protection and are regulated by cytokines and neuropeptides. However, their regulation by …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …

Most experiments studying bacterial microbiomes rely on the PCR amplification of all or part
of the gene for the 16S rRNA subunit, which serves as a biomarker for identifying and …

Background 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing (16S analysis) is widely used to analyze
microbiota with next-generation sequencing technologies. Here, we compared fecal 16S …

The gut microbiota is recognised as an essential asset for the normal functioning of animal
biology. When wild animals are moved into captivity, the modified environmental pressures …

Highlights•Analysis and designing of microbiomes have become a new paradigm in
microbiology.•Understanding and rational engineering of microbiomes require model-based …