Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

Reduction of microbial diversity in grassland soil is driven by long-term climate warming

L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, D Ning, X Zhou, J Feng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change threatens ecosystem functioning. Soil biodiversity is essential
for maintaining the health of terrestrial systems, but how climate change affects the richness …

microeco: an R package for data mining in microbial community ecology

C Liu, Y Cui, X Li, M Yao - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A large amount of sequencing data is produced in microbial community ecology
studies using the high-throughput sequencing technique, especially amplicon-sequencing …

Specialized metabolic functions of keystone taxa sustain soil microbiome stability

W Xun, Y Liu, W Li, Y Ren, W **ong, Z Xu, N Zhang… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background The relationship between biodiversity and soil microbiome stability remains
poorly understood. Here, we investigated the impacts of bacterial phylogenetic diversity on …

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

MA Spyrou, L Musralina, GA Gnecchi Ruscone… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long …

A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

AY Kawahara, C Storer, APS Carvalho… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with
plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However …

Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China

S Jiao, Y Yang, Y Xu, J Zhang, Y Lu - The ISME Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is
crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but …

Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China

A Latinne, B Hu, KJ Olival, G Zhu, L Zhang, H Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bats are presumed reservoirs of diverse coronaviruses (CoVs) including progenitors of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of …

Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

L Wu, D Ning, B Zhang, Y Li, P Zhang, X Shan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for water purification
to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and …