Microbiome composition and function in aquatic vertebrates: small organisms making big impacts on aquatic animal health

L Sehnal, E Brammer-Robbins… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aquatic ecosystems are under increasing stress from global anthropogenic and natural
changes, including climate change, eutrophication, ocean acidification, and pollution. In this …

Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

A Jousset, C Bienhold, A Chatzinotas… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rare species are increasingly recognized as crucial, yet vulnerable components of Earth's
ecosystems. This is also true for microbial communities, which are typically composed of a …

Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges

G Berg, D Rybakova, D Fischer, T Cernava… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
The field of microbiome research has evolved rapidly over the past few decades and has
become a topic of great scientific and public interest. As a result of this rapid growth in …

MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

MKD Dueholm, M Nierychlo, KS Andersen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial communities are responsible for biological wastewater treatment, but our
knowledge of their diversity and function is still poor. Here, we sequence more than 5 million …

Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons

W Chen, K Ren, A Isabwe, H Chen, M Liu, J Yang - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background The deep mechanisms (deterministic and/or stochastic processes) underlying
community assembly are a central challenge in microbial ecology. However, the relative …

Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils

QL Chen, J Ding, D Zhu, HW Hu… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities play an essential role in driving multiple functions (ie,
multifunctionality) that are central to the global biogeochemical cycles. Long-term fertilization …

Dynamics of the normal gut microbiota: a longitudinal one-year population study in Sweden

LM Olsson, F Boulund, S Nilsson, MT Khan… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Temporal dynamics of the gut microbiota potentially limit the identification of microbial
features associated with health status. Here, we used whole-genome metagenomic and 16S …

Applying the core microbiome to understand host–microbe systems

A Risely - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The host‐associated core microbiome was originally coined to refer to common groups of
microbes or genes that were likely to be particularly important for host biological function …

Synthetic microbiota reveal priority effects and keystone strains in the Arabidopsis phyllosphere

CI Carlström, CM Field, M Bortfeld-Miller… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Multicellular organisms, including plants, are colonized by microorganisms, some of which
are beneficial to growth and health. The assembly rules for establishing plant microbiota are …

Distinct patterns and processes of abundant and rare eukaryotic plankton communities following a reservoir cyanobacterial bloom

Y Xue, H Chen, JR Yang, M Liu, B Huang… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Plankton communities normally consist of few abundant and many rare species, yet little is
known about the ecological role of rare planktonic eukaryotes. Here we used a 18S …