Microbial communities are not only shaped by the diversity of microorganisms and their
individual metabolic potential, but also by the vast amount of intra-and interspecies …

Natural ecosystems harbor a huge reservoir of taxonomically diverse microbes that are
important for plant growth and health. The vast diversity of soil microorganisms and their …

The composition of ecological communities varies not only between different locations but
also in time. Understanding the fundamental processes that drive species toward rarity or …

Microbial interactions can lead to different colonization outcomes of exogenous species, be
they pathogenic or beneficial in nature. Predicting the colonization of exogenous species in …

Microbes in nature often lack nutrients and face extreme or widely fluctuating temperatures,
unlike microbes in growth-optimized settings in laboratories that much of the literature …

Polymicrobial infections include various microorganisms, often necessitating different
treatment methods than a monomicrobial infection. Scientists have been puzzled by the …

The human gut microbiome contains many bacterial strains of the same species ('strain-level
variants'). Describing strains in a biologically meaningful way rather than purely …

Microbiomes perform critical functions across many environments on Earth1, 2, 3. However,
elucidating principles of their design is immensely challenging4, 5, 6, 7. Using a diverse …

Microbial ecosystems carry out essential functions for global climate, human health, and
industry. These complex communities exhibit a surprising amount of functionally relevant …

Microbiomes can exhibit large variations in species abundances but high reproducibility in
abundances of functional units, an observation often considered evidence for functional …