Micro-organisms play key roles in various ecosystems, but many of their functions and
interactions remain undefined. To investigate the ecological relevance of microbial …

Eight-hundred thousand to one trillion prokaryotic species may inhabit our planet. Yet, fewer
than two-hundred thousand prokaryotic species have been described. This uncharted …

Obtaining sufficient genetic material from a limited biological source is currently the primary
operational bottleneck in studies investigating biodiversity and genome evolution. In this …

Microbes, or microorganisms, have been the foundation of the biosphere for over 3 billion
years and have played an essential role in sha** our planet. The available knowledge on …

In Raman-activated cell ejection and sequencing (RACE-Seq), success rate and sequence
coverage have generally been low for shotgun sequencing of individual post-RACE cells …

Thermophiles and hyperthermophiles are immensely useful in understanding the evolution
of life, besides their utility in environmental and industrial biotechnology. Advancements in …

Cells are the building blocks of life, from single-celled microbes through to multi-cellular
organisms. To understand a multitude of biological processes we need to understand how …

The molecular diversity of marine picocyanobacterial populations, an important component
of phytoplankton communities, is better characterized using high-resolution marker genes …