Historically, appreciation for the roles of resource gradients in biology has fluctuated
inversely to the popularity of genetic mechanisms. Nevertheless, in microbiology specifically …

Chromatic acclimation (CA) encompasses a diverse set of molecular processes that involve
the ability of cyanobacterial cells to sense ambient light colors and use this information to …

Microbial community succession is a fundamental process that affects underlying functions
of almost all ecosystems; yet the roles and fates of the most abundant colonizers are often …

The functional metagenomic potential of Shark Bay microbial mats was examined for the first
time at a millimeter scale, employing shotgun sequencing of communities via the Illumina …

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are an ecological concern but relatively few studies have
investigated the functional potential of bacterioplankton over a complete algal bloom cycle …

Phototrophic microbial mats dominated terrestrial ecosystems for billions of years, largely
causing, through cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis, but also undergoing, the Great …

In the past decades, the study of microbial life through shotgun metagenomic sequencing
has rapidly expanded our understanding of environmental, synthetic, and clinical microbial …

Background Advances in sequencing, assembly, and assortment of contigs into species-
specific bins has enabled the reconstruction of genomes from metagenomic data (MAGs) …

Microbial community diversity significantly varies with seasonality. However, little is known
about seasonal variation of microbial community functions in lake sediments and their …

Human pathogenic diseases received much attention recently due to their uncontrolled
spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which causes several threads every year. Effective …