High intensity perturbations induce an abrupt shift in soil microbial state
Soil microbial communities play a pivotal role in regulating ecosystem functioning. But they are increasingly being shaped by human-induced environ…
Tag: Microbial ecology
Coevolution between marine Aeromonas and phages reveals temporal trade-off patterns of phage resistance and host population fitness
Coevolution of bacteria and phages is an important host and parasite dynamic in marine ecosystems, contributing to the understanding of bacterial c…
Nutrient supplementation by genome-eroded Burkholderia symbionts of scale insects
Hemipterans are known as hosts to bacterial or fungal symbionts that supplement their unbalanced diet with essential nutrients. Among them, scale i…
Land use conversion increases network complexity and stability of soil microbial communities in a temperate grassland
Soils harbor highly diverse microbial communities that are critical to soil health, but agriculture has caused extensive land use conversion result…
Community composition and physiological plasticity control microbial carbon storage across natural and experimental soil fertility gradients
Many microorganisms synthesise carbon (C)-rich compounds under resource deprivation. Such compounds likely serve as intracellular C-storage pools t…
Progress and challenges in exploring aquatic microbial communities using non-targeted metabolomics
Advances in bioanalytical technologies are constantly expanding our insights into complex ecosystems. Here, we highlight strategies and application…
Mutualism reduces the severity of gene disruptions in predictable ways across microbial communities
Predicting evolution in microbial communities is critical for problems from human health to global nutrient cycling. Understanding how species inte…
Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula
Ice-free terrestrial environments of the western Antarctic Peninsula are expanding and subject to colonization by new microorganisms and plants, wh…
Identification and cultivation of anaerobic bacterial scavengers of dead cells
The cycle of life and death and Earth’s carbon cycle(s) are intimately linked, yet how bacterial cells, one of the largest pools of biomass on Ea…