How bacterial chemotaxis is performed is much better understood than why. Traditionally,
chemotaxis has been understood as a foraging strategy by which bacteria enhance their …

Advances in high-throughput and multiplexed microfluidics have rewarded biotechnology
researchers with vast amounts of data but not necessarily the ability to analyze complex data …

The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit
microscale chemical hotspots has been widely theorized to affect ocean-basin scale …

The ability of marine bacteria to direct their movement in response to chemical gradients
influences inter-species interactions, nutrient turnover, and ecosystem productivity. While …

Behaviours such as chemotaxis can facilitate metabolic exchanges between phytoplankton
and heterotrophic bacteria, which ultimately regulate oceanic productivity and …

Simple Summary Microorganisms like bacteria, archaea, fungi, microalgae, and viruses
mostly form complex interactive networks within the ecosystem rather than existing as single …

Heavy metal contamination poses an escalating global challenge to soil ecosystems, with
hyperaccumulators playing a crucial role in environmental remediation and resource …

Microbiomes play critical roles in ecosystems and human health, yet in most cases scientists
lack standardized and reproducible model microbial communities. The development of …

Mixotrophic protists (unicellular eukaryotes) that engage in both phototrophy
(photosynthesis) and phago-heterotrophy (engulfment of particles)—are predicted to …

Chemicals inducing chemotaxis have been characterised for over 60 years across hundreds
of publications. Without any synthesis of these scattered results, our current understanding …