Volume 93, Issue 1, January 2017

This review summarises recent advances into the identity, diversity and ecology of anaerobic degraders of monoaromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated aquifers.

Temporal diversity and community structure of the entire protist assemblage from the Gulf of Naples assessed using high throughput sequencing and light microscopy.

Generally applicable ecological indices for the statistical analysis of microbial community composition and dynamics based on fingerprinting and NGS datasets are presented warranting interstudy comparability and intuitive interpretability.

Microenvironmental differences shape the distribution and abundance of bacterial populations in the gut compartments of higher termites.

Parasitism of bacteria (Escherichia coli) by viruses can be prevented by compounds present in the natural environment of this species, but antibiotics do not show the same effects.

Both temporal and environmental filtering play key roles in structuring bacterial communities and soil bacterial groups with different ecological strategies occur in different stages of succession in this glacier foreland.

The effect of soil factors on severity of potato common scab differs by site, field and cultivar.

A high diversity of genetic lineages of Staphylococcus aureus and of multidrug resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci has been detected in superficial waters. Aquatic environments are a source of staphylococci of ecological and clinical relevance.

The bacterial community of the carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia grandis was investigated, revealing divergent communities in different anatomical regions.

Despite differences in environmental factors, the community composition of phoD alkaline phosphatase remained similar in all samples, while the composition of phoX alkaline phosphatase differed substantially between the samples.

Common scab of potatoes was suppressed by addition of biologically available iron and peat.

Information in this manuscript is the first study on microbial rhodopsins present in coastal marine sediments. Also it reported a previously undescribed allopatric cladism for the viral rhodopsins sequences.

This study presents the first large 16S rRNA dataset describing bacterioplankton from tropical Brazilian lakes and reveals highly diverse and dynamic communities, helping to map global freshwater lake bacterioplankton.

Soybean monoculturing engaged exclusive bacterial and fungal taxa in the rhizosphere microbiome for soil suppression of Heterodera glycines.

The presented data provide essential information for understanding the role of mega-sized repABC-type replicons in the adaptation of the host cells to heavy metal contaminated environments.

Carbamate hydrolase gene cehA is ubiquitous in soils modulating the rapid hydrolysis of oxamyl and carbofuran and its abundance is positively correlated with soil pH.

Linking sponge phylogeny to associated bacteria.

Prebiotics modulated caecal microbiota, immune response and caecal Salmonella Enteritidis colonisation in young chickens.

Prebiotic potential of L-sorbose and xylitol.

The diversity of potentially associated migrating bacteria associated to the fungus Mortierella brings a novel perspective on the importance of r-strategist fungi in soil functioning.

Optical properties of the DOM shaping microbial communities in the North Atlantic.