Complex interactions between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts play significant roles
in shaping the structure of environmental microbial communities, not only by genetic …

This review examines new techniques and applications of organic petrography in source-
rock reservoir petroleum systems that have occurred along with development of the global …

Bacteria from phyla lacking cultivated representatives are widespread in natural systems
and some have very small genomes. Here we test the hypothesis that these cells are small …

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has become an indispensable tool for rapid and
direct single-cell identification of microbes by detecting signature regions in their rRNA …

Iron-reducing bacteria (FeRB) play key roles in anaerobic metal and carbon cycling and
carry out biogeochemical transformations that can be harnessed for environmental …

New developments in the field of microscopy enable to acquire increasing amounts of
information from large sample areas and at an increased resolution. Depending on the …

Metagenomic studies are revolutionizing our understanding of microbes in the biosphere.
They have uncovered numerous proteins of unknown function in tens of essentially …

During the past decades, several stand-alone and combinatorial methods have been
developed to investigate the chemistry (ie, mapping of elemental, isotopic, and molecular …

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) form intracellular chain-assembled nanocrystals of magnetite
or greigite termed magnetosomes. The characterization of magnetosome crystals requires …

Phylogenetically diverse environmental ANME archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria
cooperatively catalyze the anaerobic oxidation of methane oxidation (AOM) in multicelled …