Woese and Fox's 1977 paper on the discovery of the Archaea triggered a revolution in the
field of evolutionary biology by showing that life was divided into not only prokaryotes and …

Bacteria influence eukaryotic biology as parasitic, commensal or beneficial symbionts. Aside
from these organismal interactions, bacteria have also been important sources of new …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement of genetic material across branches of the
tree of life, is well established in prokaryotes and uncontroversial. This is explained in part …

The decreasing cost of sequencing and concomitant augmentation of publicly available
genomes have created an acute need for automated software to assess genomic …

In a complex, diverse intestinal environment, commensal microbiota metabolizes excessive
dietary tryptophan to produce more bioactive metabolites connecting with kinds of diverse …

Objective Human gut microbiome studies are mainly bacteria-and archaea-oriented,
overlooking the presence of single-cell eukaryotes such as Blastocystis, an enteric …

The development and integration of DNA-based methods in research and clinical
microbiology laboratories have enabled standardised and comprehensive detection and …

The large intestine harbors microorganisms playing unique roles in host physiology. The
beneficial or detrimental outcome of host‐microbiome coexistence depends largely on the …

The importance of the gut microbiota for human health has sparked a strong interest in the
study of the factors that shape its composition and diversity. Despite the growing evidence …

There is massive variation in intron numbers across eukaryotic genomes, yet the major
drivers of intron content during evolution remain elusive. Rapid intron loss and gain in some …