Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities

C Kost, KR Patil, J Friedman, SL Garcia… - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Microbial communities drive global biogeochemical cycles and shape the health of plants
and animals—including humans. Their structure and function are determined by ecological …

Importance of Bacteroidetes in host–microbe interactions and ecosystem functioning

X Pan, JM Raaijmakers, VJ Carrión - Trends in microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
Bacteroidetes are prevalent in soil ecosystems and are associated with various eukaryotic
hosts, including plants, animals, and humans. The ubiquity and diversity of Bacteroidetes …

Metagenomic insights into microbial community structure and metabolism in alpine permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau

L Kang, Y Song, R Mackelprang, D Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Permafrost, characterized by its frozen soil, serves as a unique habitat for diverse
microorganisms. Understanding these microbial communities is crucial for predicting the …

[HTML][HTML] Global marine microbial diversity and its potential in bioprospecting

J Chen, Y Jia, Y Sun, K Liu, C Zhou, C Liu, D Li, G Liu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The past two decades has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of microbial
genomes retrieved from marine systems,. However, it has remained challenging to translate …

Toward a universal unit for quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental samples

X Yin, X Chen, XT Jiang, Y Yang, B Li… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has been increasingly conducted in
environmental sectors to complement the surveys in human and animal sectors under the …

A social niche breadth score reveals niche range strategies of generalists and specialists

FAB von Meijenfeldt, P Hogeweg… - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Generalists can survive in many environments, whereas specialists are restricted to a single
environment. Although a classical concept in ecology, niche breadth has remained …

Bacterial genome size and gene functional diversity negatively correlate with taxonomic diversity along a pH gradient

C Wang, QY Yu, NN Ji, Y Zheng, JW Taylor… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial gene repertoires reflect adaptive strategies, contribute to ecosystem functioning
and are limited by genome size. However, gene functional diversity does not necessarily …

Abiotic selection of microbial genome size in the global ocean

DK Ngugi, SG Acinas, P Sánchez, JM Gasol… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Strong purifying selection is considered a major evolutionary force behind small microbial
genomes in the resource-poor photic ocean. However, very little is currently known about …

Genome size distributions in bacteria and archaea are strongly linked to evolutionary history at broad phylogenetic scales

CA Martinez-Gutierrez, FO Aylward - PLoS Genetics, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The evolutionary forces that determine genome size in bacteria and archaea have been the
subject of intense debate over the last few decades. Although the preferential loss of genes …

Microbial dark matter could add uncertainties to metagenomic trait estimations

ED Osburn, SG McBride, MS Strickland - Nature Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Methods Raw metagenomic sequence reads were downloaded from National Center for
Biotechnology Information accession number PRJEB18701. Raw reads were quality filtered …