[HTML][HTML] Identifying biases and their potential solutions in human microbiome studies

JT Nearing, AM Comeau, MGI Langille - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Advances in DNA sequencing technology have vastly improved the ability of researchers to
explore the microbial inhabitants of the human body. Unfortunately, while these studies have …

Growth rates of microbes in the oceans

DL Kirchman - Annual review of marine science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
A microbe's growth rate helps to set its ecological success and its contribution to food web
dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Growth rates at the community level are …

[HTML][HTML] RESCRIPt: Reproducible sequence taxonomy reference database management

MS Robeson, DR O'Rourke, BD Kaehler… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for …

Important contribution of macroalgae to oceanic carbon sequestration

A Ortega, NR Geraldi, I Alam, AA Kamau… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The role of macroalgae in Blue Carbon assessments has been controversial, partially due to
uncertainties about the fate of exported macroalgae. Available evidence suggests that …

[HTML][HTML] The variability of the 16S rRNA gene in bacterial genomes and its consequences for bacterial community analyses

T Větrovský, P Baldrian - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
16S ribosomal RNA currently represents the most important target of study in bacterial
ecology. Its use for the description of bacterial diversity is, however, limited by the presence …

[图书][B] Processes in microbial ecology

DL Kirchman - 2018 - books.google.com
Microbial ecology is the study of interactions among microbes in natural environments and
their roles in biogeochemical cycles, food web dynamics, and the evolution of life. Microbes …

The active microbial diversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality and is physiologically related to carbon availability in Mediterranean semi‐arid soils

F Bastida, IF Torres, JL Moreno, P Baldrian… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biogeochemical processes and ecosystemic functions are mostly driven by soil microbial
communities. However, most methods focus on evaluating the total microbial community and …

[HTML][HTML] rpoB, a promising marker for analyzing the diversity of bacterial communities by amplicon sequencing

JC Ogier, S Pagès, M Galan, M Barret, S Gaudriault - BMC microbiology, 2019 - Springer
Background Microbiome composition is frequently studied by the amplification and high-
throughput sequencing of specific molecular markers (metabarcoding). Various …

Macroecology to unite all life, large and small

A Shade, RR Dunn, SA Blowes, P Keil… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Macroecology is the study of the mechanisms underlying general patterns of ecology across
scales. Research in microbial ecology and macroecology have long been detached. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering intra-species bacterial diversity of meat and seafood spoilage microbiota using gyrB amplicon sequencing: A comparative analysis with 16S …

S Poirier, O Rué, R Peguilhan, G Coeuret, M Zagorec… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Meat and seafood spoilage ecosystems harbor extensive bacterial genomic diversity that is
mainly found within a small number of species but within a large number of strains with …