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Antarctic snow algae: unraveling the processes underlying microbial community assembly during blooms formation
Background and aimsAt the West Antarctic Peninsula, snow algae blooms are composed of complex microbial communities dominated by green microalgae and...
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Aedes albopictus saliva contains a richer microbial community than the midgut
BackgroundPast findings demonstrate that arthropods can egest midgut microbiota into the host skin leading to dual colonization of the vertebrate...
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Predicting microbial community compositions in wastewater treatment plants using artificial neural networks
BackgroundActivated sludge (AS) of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is one of the world’s largest artificial microbial ecosystems and the...
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Experimental community coalescence sheds light on microbial interactions in soil and restores impaired functions
BackgroundMicrobes typically live in communities where individuals can interact with each other in numerous ways. However, knowledge on the...
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Sulfur-cycling chemolithoautotrophic microbial community dominates a cold, anoxic, hypersaline Arctic spring
BackgroundGypsum Hill Spring, located in Nunavut in the Canadian High Arctic, is a rare example of a cold saline spring arising through thick...
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Long-read assembled metagenomic approaches improve our understanding on metabolic potentials of microbial community in mangrove sediments
BackgroundMangrove wetlands are coastal ecosystems with important ecological features and provide habitats for diverse microorganisms with key roles...
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Synthetic community derived from grafted watermelon rhizosphere provides protection for ungrafted watermelon against Fusarium oxysporum via microbial synergistic effects
BackgroundPlant microbiota contributes to plant growth and health, including enhancing plant resistance to various diseases. Despite remarkable...
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METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks
BackgroundAdvances in microbiome science are being driven in large part due to our ability to study and infer microbial ecology from genomes...
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Microbial Infections
The host-parasite relationship is determined by the interaction between host factors and the infecting microorganisms. The outcome of any microbial...
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Ontology-aware deep learning enables ultrafast and interpretable source tracking among sub-million microbial community samples from hundreds of niches
The taxonomic structure of microbial community sample is highly habitat-specific, making source tracking possible, allowing identification of the...
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Marine DNA methylation patterns are associated with microbial community composition and inform virus-host dynamics
BackgroundDNA methylation in prokaryotes is involved in many different cellular processes including cell cycle regulation and defense against...
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May microbial ecological baseline exist in continental groundwater?
BackgroundMicrobes constitute almost the entire biological community in subsurface groundwater and play an important role in ecological evolution and...
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Lose-lose consequences of bacterial community-driven invasions in soil
BackgroundCommunity-driven invasion, also known as community coalescence, occurs widely in natural ecosystems. Despite that, our knowledge about the...
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Coexistence of specialist and generalist species within mixed plastic derivative-utilizing microbial communities
BackgroundPlastic-degrading microbial isolates offer great potential to degrade, transform, and upcycle plastic waste. Tandem chemical and biological...
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Microbial risk score for capturing microbial characteristics, integrating multi-omics data, and predicting disease risk
BackgroundWith the rapid accumulation of microbiome-wide association studies, a great amount of microbiome data are available to study the...
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Successional dynamics and alternative stable states in a saline activated sludge microbial community over 9 years
BackgroundMicrobial communities in both natural and applied settings reliably carry out myriads of functions, yet how stable these taxonomically...
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Microbial underdogs: exploring the significance of low-abundance commensals in host-microbe interactions
Our understanding of host-microbe interactions has broadened through numerous studies over the past decades. However, most investigations primarily...
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Elevated atmospheric CO2 alters the microbial community composition and metabolic potential to mineralize organic phosphorus in the rhizosphere of wheat
BackgroundUnderstanding how elevated atmospheric CO 2 (eCO 2 ) impacts on phosphorus (P) transformation in plant rhizosphere is critical for...
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Strain-specific gut microbial signatures in type 2 diabetes identified in a cross-cohort analysis of 8,117 metagenomes
The association of gut microbial features with type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been inconsistent due in part to the complexity of this disease and...
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The interrelation between microbial immunoglobulin coating, vaginal microbiota, ethnicity, and preterm birth
BackgroundVaginal microbiota composition is associated with spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB), depending on ethnicity. Host-microbiota interactions...
