Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

This study uses genome resolved metatranscriptomics to reveal dominant nitrogen metabolisms in a warm, seasonally anoxic tropical lake, identifying key microbial taxa and functional pathways involved in nitrogen cycling.

This study shows microbial community diversity responses to disturbance frequency vary by substrate, with cellulose supporting a unimodal relationship and glucose a monotonically increasing one.

The paper investigates how bacterial communities respond to the degradation of ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi organic matter, finding similar patterns to those observed with jellyfish blooms.

This paper evaluates methods for controlling uneven sequencing effort in amplicon sequencing and finds rarefaction is the most robust approach for accurate diversity metric analysis.

The paper investigates microbial communities in hydrothermal vent discharge, finding geographic influences on community structure despite similar environmental conditions.

The paper analyzes the genomic and functional characteristics of SAR86 marine bacteria using a newly isolated strain and environmental genomes, revealing their metabolic capabilities and ecological distribution.

The paper measures microbial eukaryote abundances and predation rates at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, showing higher grazing rates under in situ pressure and their role in deep-sea carbon cycling.

The paper shows that Prochlorococcus develops a dark-tolerant phenotype when co-cultured with Alteromonas, involving metabolic coupling and shifts in gene expression.

The paper predicts competitive rank order in a 4-species bacterial community using monoculture growth and supernatant assay data.

This study examines how carbon substrate complexity affects competition and growth dynamics between two marine heterotrophic microbes, showing that complex substrates promote coexistence and efficient organic matter remineralization.

This study links microbial communities in millimetre-sized soil aggregates to their physico-chemical properties, showing distinct communities and environmental relationships.

This paper introduces a framework to quantify microbial guilds using metagenomic data, focusing on functional protein sequences and their ecological roles in marine ecosystems.

The paper investigates how corrinoid structure affects soil microbial community composition and stability through experimental and genomic analysis.

This study investigates the lifestyle of DPANN archaea in rock-hosted environments using genome-resolved meta-omics, revealing a symbiotic lifestyle and ecological interactions with bacteria and minerals.

This study isolates and characterizes a novel Nanobdellota archaeon and its host, revealing an attachment organelle that mediates their ectosymbiotic interaction.

This study shows that microbial communities are more vulnerable to invasion during transient dynamics, with invaders having greater impact before communities stabilize.

This study investigates the ecological relevance of flagellar motility in soil bacteria by analyzing genomic and metagenomic data across multiple soil environments.

This study shows biotic interactions explain more variation in alpine soil microbiomes than abiotic factors, with stronger effects in summer than spring.

The paper studies how a geothermal spring community responds to diurnal stressors, revealing structured biotic interactions across domains of life.

This study quantifies carbon transfer in a microbial alga-bacterium interaction, finding limited carbon flow and bacterial vitamin B12 synthesis despite algal lysis.

This study shows urea is a major nitrogen source for deep-sea microbes and supports nitrification, fueling chemoautotrophy in the dark ocean.

The paper examines geographic population structure and dynamics of freshwater bacteria using metagenomes and genomes, finding significant spatial differentiation and contrasting population dynamics across species.

This study investigates the evolutionary history of sulfur oxidation by analyzing SAR324 and related bacterial phyla, finding that they are linked to the origins of the reverse dsr pathway.

The paper investigates how bioconvection affects the metabolism of Chromatium okenii in Lake Cadagno, showing enhanced metabolic advantage through transcriptomic analysis.

The paper investigates how community richness and density affect bacterial interactions, finding that these factors influence interaction strength and predictability across different contexts.

The paper analyzes microbial nitrogen acquisition strategies across diverse genomes to identify ecological and physiological controls on their distribution.

The paper examines spatial variations in carbohydrate composition and microbial utilisation in Arctic Atlantic waters during late summer, revealing distinct patterns of glycan distribution and microbial activity.

This study examines microbial traits involved in B12 biosynthesis in the global ocean, revealing that environmental factors select functional traits over taxonomy and that functional redundancy drives community assembly.

This study examines how benthic microbial communities in the North Sea vary with environmental and anthropogenic factors, finding that bottom trawling reduces diversity and shifts metabolic functions.