Fish gut microbiome confers various effects to the host fish; this includes overall size,
metabolism, feeding behaviour and immune response in the fish. The emergence of …

Industrialization, population burst, and changing lifestyles have resulted in the genesis of
non-degradable pollutants languishing the environment and human health. Biological …

Background Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has enabled the rapid,
unbiased detection and identification of microbes without pathogen-specific reagents …

Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) lead to more deaths each year than any other
infectious disease category. Despite this, etiologic LRTI pathogens are infrequently …

Environmental DNA sequencing has revealed the expansive biodiversity of microorganisms
and clarified the relationship between host-associated microbial communities and host …

Emerging vector-borne diseases are an important issue in global health. Many vector-borne
pathogens have appeared in new regions in the past two decades, while many endemic …

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large icosahedral DNA virus which replicates
predominantly in the cytoplasm of infected cells. The ASFV double-stranded DNA genome …

The growing prevalence of deadly microbes with resistance to previously life-saving drug
therapies is a dire threat to human health. Detection of low abundance pathogen sequences …

Recent significant progress in culture-independent techniques, together with the parallel
development of-omics technologies and data analysis capabilities, have led to a new …

Over the past decade, researchers have begun to characterize viral diversity using
metagenomic methods. These studies have shown that viruses, the majority of which infect …