Microbial regulatory strategies have long been understood in terms of the homeostatic
framework, in which a response is interpreted as a restoring force counteracting the …

Members of the genus Xenorhabdus are entomopathogenic bacteria that associate with
nematodes. The nematode-bacteria pair infects and kills insects, with both partners …

A First Course in Systems Biology is an introduction for advanced undergraduate and
graduate students to the growing field of systems biology. Its main focus is the development …

Despite their complexity, microbial ecosystems appear to be at least partially “coarse-
grainable” in that some properties of interest can be adequately described by effective …

Background The environment has been playing an instrumental role in shaping and
maintaining the morphological, physiological and biochemical diversities of prokaryotes. It …

Two novel, halotolerant strains of Martelella soudanensis, NC18 T and NC20, were isolated
from deep subsurface sediment, deeply sequenced, and comparatively analyzed with …

To increase our knowledge on how application of organic material alters soil microbial
populations and functionality, shotgun metagenomic sequencing was used to determine the …

Soil anoxia is common in the annually thawed surface ('active') layer of permafrost soils,
particularly when soils are saturated, and supports anaerobic microbial metabolism and …

Phylogenomic studies produce increasingly large phylogenetic forests of trees with patchy
taxonomical sampling. Typically, prokaryotic data generate thousands of gene trees of all …

Background Although the majority of bacteria are innocuous or even beneficial for their host,
others are highly infectious pathogens that can cause widespread and deadly diseases …