Volume 96, Issue 5, May 2020

Biofilms and membrane vesicles are the stage of gene transfer.

This paper introduces a nested framework to bridge the gap between local drivers of soil microbial distributions and the global scale at which most spatial environmental data are available.

This study is a comprehensive analysis of four C. gigas tissue bacterial communities across six discrete estuaries spanning 470 km with an emphasis on identifying ‛core’ elements of the oyster bacterial community.

Genome reconstruction of Gallionellaceae dwelling in groundwater of a fractured aquifer suggests niche partitioning linked to the physical nature of the oxic-anoxic interface developing belowground and at the surface.

This study revealed straw return suppressed N₂O emission via altering denitrifying bacterial community compositions and highlighted the importance of EOC in controlling denitrifying bacterial communities.

Shifts in soil microbial communities surrounding fragmented kauri forests due to pine plantation establishment may impact forest health already under threat from the spread of an invasive pathogen.

From the quantitative and qualitative results, we demonstrated that the analysis of the sediment bacterial communities at the RNA level was more informative than that at the DNA level.

This study investigates the origin and assembly of the microbial endophytes inhabiting grapevine, and highlights bacteria and fungi that may play a role in the host environmental fitness.

Two novel computational methods were developed to conduct a deep metagenomic analysis of Svalbard permafrost samples, resulting in previously unreported trends in permafrost, especially the importance of aerobic metabolisms.

This article provides novel insights into the role of plant hormones and host genotype in the structure of the fungal communities inhabiting tomato roots, while also exploring the fungal lifestyle.

Sludge aggregate size significantly alter the bacterial communities and network associations.

The co-selection of different microbial functional groups reinforces the hypothesis that functions are more important than the taxonomic composition of the microbiota.

The reported findings suggest that lack of seeding with Enterococci from breastmilk into the infant gut influences the unusual development of excessive weight gain in breastfed infants.

Stump removal leads to an increase in ectomycorrhizal fungal associations, thus stumping can be considered a good management practice for mitigating root disease and promoting tree regeneration.

A landscape scale study of microbial community composition and structure in a biologically simple, microbially dominated cold desert system.

Communities of nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidizers vary with water table depth in Chinese peatlands.

In the current study, we quantified the abundance of members of the Bifidobacterium genus in 163 human milk samples using a combination of metagenomic and flow cytometry approaches.

Metabolic reconstruction of core organisms in a methanogenic bioreactor and their responses to sulfate.

Both environmental filtering and spatial distance are important in explaining diversity and biogeography of soil denitrifying communities in remote and less disturbed wetlands.

Using an experimental manipulation, we show the effects of temperature increases on Antarctic soil ammonia oxidising bacteria.

The first study to examine the effect of field-collected flowback and produced water, generated by hydraulic fracturing of shale gas wells, on the microbial ecology of freshwater systems.