Background Ticks are obligate blood feeders transmitting major pathogens worldwide. Over
the past few years, considerable research efforts have focused on the diversity, distribution …

Chitin provides a valuable carbon and nitrogen source for soil microorganisms and is a
major component of particulate organic matter in agricultural soils. To date, there is no …

Dead wood represents an important pool of organic matter in forests and is one of the
sources of soil formation. It has been shown to harbour diverse communities of bacteria, but …

The primary motivation of this study is the lack of knowledge regarding the shift in microbial
community and functional compositions in lignocellulosic waste-based composting and …

Wood decomposer fungi are grouped by how they extract sugars from lignocellulose. Brown
rot fungi selectively degrade cellulose and hemicellulose, leaving lignin intact, and white rot …

Background Methanol is the second most abundant volatile organic compound in the
atmosphere, with the majority produced as a metabolic by-product during plant growth …

Amplicon-based analysis of 16S rRNA genes and transcripts was used to assess the effect
of tree species composition on soil bacterial community structure and function in a temperate …

Hyporheic zones are the water-saturated flow-through subsurfaces of rivers which are
characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of multiple physical, biological, and chemical …

Microbiota studies of Aedes aegypti and other mosquitoes generally focus on the bacterial
communities found in adult female midguts. However, other compartments of the digestive …

Biogenic volatile organic compounds (bVOCs) play important roles in ecological interactions
and Earth system processes, yet the biological and physical processes that drive soil bVOC …