Protists are the dominant eukaryotes in the biosphere where they play key functional roles.
While protists have been studied for over a century, it is the high-throughput sequencing of …

Microorganisms play a crucial role in the biogeochemical processes of Dissolved Organic
Matter (DOM), and the properties of DOM also significantly influence changes in microbial …

Plankton communities normally consist of few abundant and many rare species, yet little is
known about the ecological role of rare planktonic eukaryotes. Here we used a 18S …

The factors determining stochastic and deterministic processes that drive microbial
community structure, specifically the balance of abundant and rare bacterial taxa, remain …

Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …

Background VSEARCH is an open source and free of charge multithreaded 64-bit tool for
processing and preparing metagenomics, genomics and population genomics nucleotide …

Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) constitute one of the most diverse and ecologically important
groups of phytoplankton. They are considered to be particularly important in nutrient-rich …

Despite the important roles of soil microbes, especially the most diverse rare taxa in
maintaining community diversity and multifunctionality, how different climate regimes alter …

Background The relative importance of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial
communities is unclear, as are the possible influences that alter the balance between these …

The profound influence of microorganisms on human life and global biogeochemical cycles
underlines the value of studying the biogeography of microorganisms, exploring microbial …