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Greening initiatives in the Middle East can leverage urban infrastructure to enhance sustainable water use
Large-scale afforestation is championed as a way to restore degraded habitats, conserve biodiversity and advance societal improvements. In the Middle East, a severely water-stressed region, we argue that urban...
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Open AccessGill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious mangrove crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation
The transition from water to air is a key event in the evolution of many marine organisms to access new food sources, escape water hypoxia, and exploit the higher and temperature-independent oxygen concentrati...
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Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales
The decline of dissolved oxygen in the oceans could be detrimental to marine life and biogeochemical cycles. However, predicting future oxygen availability with models that mainly focus on temporal and spatial...
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Open AccessImpact of chemicals and physical stressors on horizontal gene transfer via natural transformation
Contaminants in the environment can increase natural transformation rates in bacteria. However, the co-occurrence of a large suite of contaminants may result in final transformation rates that are not based on...
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Open AccessTracking the early signals of crude oil in seawater and plankton after a major oil spill in the Red Sea
Understanding the immediate impacts of oil spills is essential to recognizing their long-term consequences on the marine environment. In this study, we traced the early (within one week) signals of crude oil i...
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Open AccessEnzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes
Microbial communities respond to temperature with physiological adaptation and compositional turnover. Whether thermal selection of enzymes explains marine microbiome plasticity in response to temperature rema...
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Open AccessCell phenotype changes and oxidative stress response in Vibrio spp. induced into viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state
Aquatic bacteria of the genus Vibrio include animal and human pathogens. The occurrence of Vibrio-related diseases has been associated with the current climate change-driven increase of sea surface temperature. V...
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Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss
Global biodiversity loss and mass extinction of species are two of the most critical environmental issues the world is currently facing, resulting in the disruption of various ecosystems central to environment...
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Open AccessGenomic and metabolic adaptations of biofilms to ecological windows of opportunity in glacier-fed streams
In glacier-fed streams, ecological windows of opportunity allow complex microbial biofilms to develop and transiently form the basis of the food web, thereby controlling key ecosystem processes. Using metageno...
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Open AccessRhizosheath–root system changes exopolysaccharide content but stabilizes bacterial community across contrasting seasons in a desert environment
In hot deserts daily/seasonal fluctuations pose great challenges to the resident organisms. However, these extreme ecosystems host unique microenvironments, such as the rhizosheath–root system of desert spearg...
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Open AccessBacterial community structure and diversity along the halocline of Tyro deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin
Tyro is a deep hypersaline anoxic basin (DHAB) located at the seafloor of the Eastern Mediterranean sea. Tyro hosts a stratified eukaryotic microbiome moving from seawater to the brine, but no reports are avai...
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Diversity and Plant Growth-Promoting Properties of Microbiomes Associated with Plants in Desert Soils
Plants inhabiting desert ecosystems, also known as xerophytes, exhibits morphological and physiological adaptations to resist the abiotic stresses, such as drought and salinity. They also exploit the ecologica...
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Open AccessThe effect of plant domestication on host control of the microbiota
Macroorganisms are colonized by microbial communities that exert important biological and ecological functions, the composition of which is subject to host control and has therefore been described as “an ecosy...
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Open AccessCompartmentalization of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in the gut of adult honeybees
The core gut microbiome of adult honeybee comprises a set of recurring bacterial phylotypes, accompanied by lineage-specific, variable, and less abundant environmental bacterial phylotypes. Several mutual inte...
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Open AccessChimeric symbionts expressing a Wolbachia protein stimulate mosquito immunity and inhibit filarial parasite development
Wolbachia can reduce the capability of mosquitoes to transmit infectious diseases to humans and is currently exploited in campaigns for the control of arboviruses, like dengue and Zika. Under the assumption that
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Open AccessDiscovery of Afifi, the shallowest and southernmost brine pool reported in the Red Sea
The previously uncharted Afifi brine pool was discovered in the eastern shelf of the southern Red Sea. It is the shallowest brine basin yet reported in the Red Sea (depth range: 353.0 to 400.5 m). It presents ...
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A horizon scan of priorities for coastal marine microbiome research
Research into the microbiomes of natural environments is changing the way ecologists and evolutionary biologists view the importance of microorganisms in ecosystem function. This is particularly relevant in oc...
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Open AccessThe role of fungi in heterogeneous sediment microbial networks
While prokaryote community diversity and function have been extensively studied in soils and sediments, the functional role of fungi, despite their huge diversity, is widely unexplored. Several studies have, n...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Dispersal homogenizes communities via immigration even at low rates in a simplified synthetic bacterial metacommunity
In the original version of this article, the green and blue outlines in Figure 2b, top centre and right panels were inadvertently shifted left from the correct position. This has now been corrected in the PDF ...
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Open AccessDispersal homogenizes communities via immigration even at low rates in a simplified synthetic bacterial metacommunity
Selection and dispersal are ecological processes that have contrasting roles in the assembly of communities. Variable selection diversifies and strong dispersal homogenizes them. However, we do not know whethe...
