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Metagenomic Approaches for the Discovery of Pollutant-Remediating Enzymes: Recent Trends and Challenges
Metagenomic studies in diverse environments have generated petabytes of sequencing data, allowing biologists to peer into the uncultivated microbial... -
Metagenomic Data Analysis
This volume describes different sequencing methods, pipelines and tools for metagenome data analyses. Chapters guide readers through quality control...
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Subsurface hydrocarbon degradation strategies in low- and high-sulfate coal seam communities identified with activity-based metagenomics
Environmentally relevant metagenomes and BONCAT-FACS derived translationally active metagenomes from Powder River Basin coal seams were investigated...
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Functional glyco-metagenomics elucidates the role of glycan-related genes in environments
BackgroundGlycan-related genes play a fundamental role in various processes for energy acquisition and homeostasis maintenance while adapting to the...
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Impact of crop** systems on the functional diversity of rhizosphere microbial communities associated with maize plant: a shotgun approach
Understanding the functions carried out by rhizosphere microbiomes will further explore their importance in biotechnological improvement and...
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Metabarcoding and Metagenomics in Soil Ecology Research: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects
AbstractModern progress in soil biology is associated with the use of new molecular biology methods based on the isolation of total DNA from soil and...
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In silico determination of nitrogen metabolism in microbes from extreme conditions using metagenomics
The acid ponds of the Danakil Depression in northern Ethiopia are polyextreme environments that exceed the normal physicochemical limits of pH,...
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Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome between nurses and foragers
BackgroundStrain-level diversity is widespread among bacterial species and can expand the functional potential of natural microbial communities....
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Organic Farming Enhances the Diversity and Community Structure of Endophytic Archaea and Fungi in Maize Plant: a Shotgun Approach
This study compares, for the first time, the diversity and community structure of the endophytic archaea and fungi inhabiting the roots of maize...
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Gut metagenome profile of the Nunavik Inuit youth is distinct from industrial and non-industrial counterparts
Comparative metagenomics studies have highlighted differences in microbiome community structure among human populations over diverse lifestyles and...
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Recovering prokaryotic genomes from host-associated, short-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing data
Recovering genomes from shotgun metagenomic sequence data allows detailed taxonomic and functional characterization of individual species or strains...
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A Standardized Approach for Shotgun Metagenomic Analysis of Ancient Dental Calculus
Ancient dental calculus provides a challenging, yet unparalleled, opportunity to reconstruct ancient oral microbial communities and trace the origins... -
An in-depth evaluation of metagenomic classifiers for soil microbiomes
BackgroundRecent endeavours in metagenomics, exemplified by projects such as the human microbiome project and TARA Oceans, have illuminated the...
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Metagenomics in Deciphering Microbial Communities Associated with Medicinal Plants
Medicinal plants hold a very important place in therapeutics. Plant growth is affected by a number of abiotic and biotic factors. Among these... -
Identification of PKS Gene Clusters from Metagenomic Libraries Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Approach
Microbial secondary metabolites have been an important source of bioactive compounds with diverse applications from medicine to agriculture,... -
Multi-omics in Study of Skin Microbiome
Skin is the first line of defense of human body against infections where many diverse microbes, including fungi, viruses, bacteria are surviving.... -
Culturomics- and metagenomics-based insights into the microbial community and function of rhizosphere soils in Sinai desert farming systems
BackgroundThe microbiome of the Sinai Desert farming system plays an important role in the adaptive strategy of growing crops in a harsh,...
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Multi-omics in Gut Microbiome
The microbiome of the human gut, a complex assembly of the microorganisms inhabiting the digestive tract, exerts a profound impact on human health.... -
Compost Samples from Different Temperature Zones as a Model to Study Co-occurrence of Thermophilic and Psychrophilic Bacterial Population: a Metagenomics Approach
In this study, using a metagenomic approach, we explore the bacterial diversity of compost sites categorized based on their ambient temperatures. The...
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A Synthetic Microbiome Based on Dominant Microbes in Wild Rice Rhizosphere to Promote Sulfur Utilization
Sulfur (S) is one of the main components of important biomolecules, which has been paid more attention in the anaerobic environment of rice...