Inferences about microbial diversity, ecology and evolution can now be made based on reconstructed genomes of single microbial species, without the need for cultivation. With regard to inferring ...

A study highlights that microbial interdependencies are key to survival in lab settings, offering insights into maintaining ...

The microbial world displays an immense taxonomic diversity. This diversity is manifested also in a multitude of metabolic pathways that can utilise different substrates and produce different ...

This leads to gaps in our knowledge about how this hidden microbial world supports the health of ecosystems." The team of biologists overcame this issue by repurposing CRISPR—a revolutionary ...

This revealed that the space station lacks the microbial diversity that benefits human immune systems. Microbes on the station were surprisingly uniform, and most were related to humans.

Aquatic microbial diversity is immense and a general challenge is to understand how metabolism and interactions of single organisms shape microbial community dynamics and ecosystem-scale ...