Volume 95, Issue 1, January 2019

Carbohydrate substrate complexity impacts human colonic microbial diversity.

Mychonastes dominates photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in a river-connected lake.

Gut bacterial communities of Aedes aegypti shift in response to host blood-meal source.

Structural analysis of 2,4-D catabolic plasmids isolated from two different fields in Vietnam suggests intra-field evolution and inter-field plasmid exchange as well as the exchange of tfd genes between different plasmids within a confined local environment.

Abundance, persistence, diversity and functional impact of Cutibacterium in the infant gut.

Collagen-like genes that are expressed on the surface of spores are hypothesised to have been obtained by horizontal gene transfer and are involved in the spores' adhesion to nematode cuticle.

Overlooked metabolic capacities of Sulfuritalea hydrogenivorans sk43H: identification of gene clusters for anaerobic aromatic compound degradation and proof for functionality by cultivation.

The composition of an aromatic compound-degrading microbial community is controlled by the aromatic substrate: a Sulfuritalea/Comamonadacae community outcompetes Azoarcus in the presence of p-alkylated monoaromatics.

Grassland plant diversity influences the diversity of bacterial and fungal communities in plant shoots but not in roots or soil.

Not everything is as it seems: new pathogen unmasked by genetic analysis.

In this four month microcosm study, dynamics of prokaryotic communities and changes in resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in soil following amendment with municipal sewage sludge were investigated

The first study reporting the rhizosphere proteome of V. vinifera, describing the bacterial community structure and activity of an important ecosystem for the Italian landscape, agriculture and economy.

Feeding colostrum shapes the colon microbiota to have higher beneficial and lower opportunistic pathogenic organisms, which may play an important role in enhancing gut health of neonatal dairy calves.

Reductive Dechlorination of High Concentrations of Chloroethenes by a Dehalococcoides mccartyiStrain

We investigated larvae and pollen provisions from four solitary bee species in different landscapes, identified reoccurring bacterial associates, species-specific communities as well as shifts in line with progressing larval development

Experiments measuring the response of microbial communities to abrupt additions of heavy metals may yield different results than if they had added the metals gradually, which often better mimics environmental processes.

The authors describe for the first time the optical properties and light-harvesting potential of the evolutionarily significant Shark Bay microbial mats

The breadcrumb sponge (Halichondria panicea) from Icelandic waters hosts a dominant bacterial symbiont.

Metabarcoding successfully tracks temporal changes occurring in sediment eukaryote communities

Wood mass loss and fungal and bacterial communities, but not wood polymer loss, differ between stream and land habitats, suggesting functional redundancy and contrasting drivers of wood decomposition across habitats.