Despite the surge of microbial genome data, experimental testing is important to confirm
inferences about the cell biology, ecological roles and evolution of microorganisms. As the …

Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

Taxonomy is an organizing principle of biology and is ideally based on evolutionary
relationships among organisms. Development of a robust bacterial taxonomy has been …

Genome-based phylogeny plays a central role in the future taxonomy and phylogenetics of
Bacteria and Archaea by replacing 16S rRNA gene phylogeny. The concatenated core gene …

Tomato variety Hawaii 7996 is resistant to the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum,
whereas the Moneymaker variety is susceptible to the pathogen. To evaluate whether plant …

While metagenomics has emerged as a technology of choice for analyzing bacterial
populations, the assembly of metagenomic data remains challenging, thus stifling biological …

Microbial communities mediating anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) represent one
of the most energy-efficient environmental biotechnologies for nitrogen removal from …

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 …

Phylogenomic tree reconstruction has recently become a routine and critical task to
elucidate the evolutionary relationships among bacterial species. The most widely used …

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 …