Microbial mats are horizontally stratified microbial communities, exhibiting a structure
defined by physiochemical gradients, which models microbial diversity, physiological …

High-throughput sequencing technology is rapidly improving in quality, speed and cost. It is
therefore becoming more widely used to study whole communities of prokaryotes in many …

Shotgun sequencing enables the reconstruction of genomes from complex microbial
communities, but because assembly does not reconstruct entire genomes, it is necessary to …

Abstract The MetaCyc database (MetaCyc. org) is a comprehensive and freely accessible
database describing metabolic pathways and enzymes from all domains of life. MetaCyc …

Native tallgrass prairie once dominated much of the midwestern United States, but this
biome and the soil microbial diversity that once sustained this highly productive system have …

Although bacteria within the Verrucomicrobia phylum are pervasive in soils around the
world, they are under-represented in both isolate collections and genomic databases. Here …

Background Microbes are main drivers of biogeochemical cycles in oceans and lakes.
Although the genome is a foundation for understanding the metabolism, ecology and …

In Arctic marine bacterial communities, members of the phylum Verrucomicrobia are
consistently detected, although not typically abundant, in 16S rRNA gene clone libraries and …

For typical copper producing provinces of Heilongjiang, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi,
Shandong, Tibet, and Yunnan in China, 90% of sampling sites were heavily polluted with …

We explored microbial contributions to decomposition using a sophisticated approach to
DNA Stable Isotope Probing (SIP). Our experiment evaluated the dynamics and ecological …