The third edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new
discoveries and concepts since 2011, especially progress due to extensive application of …

Aryl polyene (APE) pigments are a widely distributed class of bacterial polyketides. So far,
little is known about the biosynthesis of these compounds, which are produced by a novel …

With the explosion of available genomic information, comparative genomics has become a
central approach to understanding microbial ecology and evolution. We developed DiGAlign …

Several microbial genomes lack textbook-defined essential genes. If an essential gene is
absent from a genome, then an evolutionarily independent gene of unknown function …

Microbial heliorhodopsins are a new type of rhodopsins, currently believed to engage in
light sensing, with an opposite membrane topology compared to type‐1 and type‐2 …

Marine biofilms are diverse microbial communities and important ecological habitats forming
on surfaces submerged in the ocean. Biofilm communities resist environmental disturbance …

Proteorhodopsins have been suggested as an important strategy among phototrophs to
capture solar energy in marine environments. The goals of this study was to investigate the …

Metabarcoding analyses of bacterial and eukaryotic communities have been proposed as
efficient tools for environmental impact assessment. It has been unclear, however, to which …

The genus Rhodobacter consists of purple nonsulfur photosynthetic alphaproteobacteria
known for their diverse metabolic capabilities. Here, we report the genome sequence and …

Phycobilisomes play a crucial role in the light-harvesting mechanisms of cyanobacteria, red
algae and glaucophytes, but the molecular mechanism of their regulation is largely …