Microbial culturing and meta-omic profiling technologies have significantly advanced our
understanding of the taxonomic and functional variation of the human microbiome and its …

Improving cultivability of a wider range of bacterial and archaeal community members, living
natively in natural environments and within plants, is a prerequisite to better understanding …

In terms of the number and diversity of living units, the prokaryotic empire is the most
represented form of life on Earth, and yet it is still to a significant degree shrouded in …

Cultivation via classical agar plate (CAP) approaches is widely used to study microbial
communities, but they are time‐consuming. An alternative approach is the application of …

Microbes thrive and, in turn, influence the earth's environment, but most are poorly
understood because of our limited capacity to reveal their natural diversity and function …

Black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), is a prominent insect for
the bioconversion of various organic wastes. As a saprotrophic insect, the BSF inhabits …

The importance of the microbiome is increasingly prominent. For example, the human
microbiome has been proven to be strongly associated with health conditions, while the …

Microorganisms in the deep sea play vital roles in marine ecosystems. However, despite
great advances brought by high throughput sequencing and metagenomics, only a small …

Advances in microbiology rely on innovations in technology. Droplet microfluidics, as a
versatile and powerful technique that allows high-throughput generation and manipulation …

The application of high-throughput microbial community profiling as well as “omics”
approaches unveiled high diversity and host-specificity of bacteria associated with marine …