Volume 95, Issue 2, February 2019

This mini-review summarizes the currently available knowledge on the abundance, phylogenetic diversity, specific adaptations and potential roles of planctomycetes in peatlands.

Despite the significant achievements in soil microbial ecology over the past years, many common methodical approaches have important limitations that need to be addressed as well as our way of thinking about soil as the ecosystem component.

Deforestation of Amazon rainforest alters soil microbial community and physicochemical properties, which subsequently alter microbially mediated biogeochemical processes, notably nitrogen cycle. The Amazon Rainforest is the largest terrestrial ecosystem on Earth and deforestation changes co-occurrence patterns of microbial communities with potential consequences to biogeochemical cycles

Nitrogen availability facilitates phosphorus acquisition by the activation of high-affinity phosphate uptake systems of N-deficient cyanobacteria during the onset of bloom formation

Genomic insights into the Defluviicoccus cluster III.

Spruce and beech as local determinants of forest fungal community structure in litter, humus and mineral soil.

The identity of the bacteria living in wood is influenced by the identity of the fungi living there.

Sporomusa and Acetobacterium strains isolated with metallic iron as electron donor enhance Fe(0) corrosion

Turf, an apparent copiotrophic environment, harbors diverse microbial taxa; the abundances of most taxa from the phylum to operational taxonomic unit level changed nonlinearly along turf development.

Mucus secreted by invertebrates living in sediment can increase the abundance of nitrogen-processing microbial groups, but this invertebrate–microbe interaction is not currently considered in sediment nitrogen models.

The parthenogenetic termite Cavitermes tuberosus and the reproductive parasite Wolbachia are partners that likely engage in an intimate insect-bacteria nutritional partnership.

The core members of the Chloroflexi community in full-scale wastewater treatment plants were identified as novel genera and their ecophysiology characterised, suggesting roles in carbohydrate breakdown and sludge settleability problems.

Discovery and ecology of a bacterial consortium attached to the surface of pinworms (nematodes) in guts of cockroaches.

The heterogeneous presence of fine sands, clays and iron-bearing phases has an influence on the in situ spatial distribution of faecal phages in riverbed sediment.

We demonstrate that sequencing batch culturing promotes r-organisms identified as Enterobacteriaceae, while continuous culturing promotes K-organisms identified as Enterobactericiaceae, Clostridium and Lachnospiraceae.

Investigators tested whether lab-based measurements accurately predicted bacterial antagonism of a wheat fungal pathogen in plants using a series of increasingly realistic experimental assays.

Soil pH dominates elevational diversity pattern for bacteria in high elevation alkaline soils on the Tibetan Plateau.

Earthworms are bioengineers of the terrestrial biosphere, and their environmental impact and nutrition are in part linked to fermentative gut microbes, the nature of which are examined in this study.

In this study, we used classical culture-based methods paired with modern sequencing to highlight the potential benefits of enrichment-based approaches in identifying novel methanogens from northern peatlands.

Soil bacterial communities are distinct across the four seasons and at the sub-seasonal scale, but not the dirunal-scale, in a temperate deciduous forest.

Excess nutrients in the sediment of a mariculture site favor the growth of bacteria that thrive in high amounts of organic matter.

In the search for novel topical skin therapies, we have examined skin-derived bacteriocins, produced by microbes which have evolved in such a way as to outcompete pathogens, and successfully colonise the skin environment.