Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

Abstract The Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD)(https://gold. jgi. doe. gov/) is a manually
curated, daily updated collection of genome projects and their metadata accumulated from …

Most prokaryotes are not available as pure cultures and therefore ineligible for naming
under the rules and recommendations of the International Code of Nomenclature of …

The composition of the human gut microbiota is linked to health and disease, but knowledge
of individual microbial species is needed to decipher their biological roles. Despite …

The presence of antibiotics can exert significant selection pressure on the emergence and
spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) …

Microbial culturing and meta-omic profiling technologies have significantly advanced our
understanding of the taxonomic and functional variation of the human microbiome and its …

The emergence of next generation sequencing (NGS) is revolutionizing the potential to
address complex microbiological challenges in the water industry. NGS technologies can …

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) play a key role in the aquatic nitrogen cycle. Their
genetic diversity is viewed as the outcome of evolutionary processes that shaped ancestral …

Soil microorganisms determine the fate of soil organic matter (SOM), and their activities
compose a major component of the global carbon (C) cycle. We employed a multisubstrate …

With increasing concerns about public health and the development of molecular techniques,
new detection tools and the combination of existing approaches have increased the abilities …