Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2017

The authors provide new insights into the association between multiple factors and alterations in our microbiota; data revision, technical challenges and methods, particularly metabolomics, are thoroughly discussed within the context of linking microorganisms to genes and proteins, and subsequently to functions.

Review of mycobiome in human health and disease.

Integrative and conjugative elements impose a bistable life style on their host, enabling a small differentiated subpopulation of cells to transmit the element.

This review highlights the use of function-driven single-cell genomics for the targeted recovery of single-cell genomes from uncultivated or uncharacterized microbes implicated with a specific function or phenotype.

The authors provide an updated review of the strategies employed by many important bacteria to finely regulate transcription of heat-shock genes, including a comprehensive description of the several ways in which environmental cues are perceived and processed.

Microbial communities in coral reefs readily respond to benthic phase shifts driven by human impacts. By changing community composition, increasing growth rates and carbon demand, and escaping viral predation, microbes rewire coral reef organic carbon flow and accelerate ecosystem degradation.