Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have allowed significant breakthroughs in
microbial ecology studies. This has led to the rapid expansion of research in the field and …

Background The analysis of microbial communities through DNA sequencing brings many
challenges: the integration of different types of data with methods from ecology, genetics …

Abstract The Park Grass experiment (PGE) in the UK has been ongoing since 1856. Its
purpose is to study the response of biological communities to the long-term treatments and …

Malnutrition affects up to one billion people in the world and is a major cause of mortality,. In
many cases, malnutrition is associated with diarrhoea and intestinal inflammation, further …

Several studies have shown that gut bacteria have a role in diabetes in murine models.
Specific bacteria have been correlated with the onset of diabetes in a rat model. However, it …

The presence, size and importance of bacterial communities on plant leaf surfaces are
widely appreciated. However, information is scarce regarding their composition and how it …

We surveyed endophytic fungal communities in leaves of a single tree species
(Metrosideros polymorpha) across wide environmental gradients (500–5,500 mm of rain/y; …

Background The process of generating raw genome sequence data continues to become
cheaper, faster, and more accurate. However, assembly of such data into high-quality …

Community level physiological profiling and pyrosequencing-based analysis of the V1-V2
16S rRNA gene region were used to characterize and compare microbial community …