Environmental Microbiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Microbiology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii104
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?103
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure98
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest80
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria67
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L. cidri65
ArsV and ArsW provide synergistic resistance to the antibiotic methylarsenite61
Prevalence, complete genome, and metabolic potentials of a phylogenetically novel cyanobacterial symbiont in the coral‐killing sponge, Terpios hoshinota61
Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya58
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance56
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION and Illumina sequencing55
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant54
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus53
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro50
The carnitine degradation pathway ofAcinetobacter baumanniiand its role in virulence49
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea48
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation47
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk46
Enrichment of nosZ‐type denitrifiers by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigates N2O emissions from soybean stubbles45
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics44
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA+ disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance43
PeMetR‐mediated sulfur assimilation is essential for virulence and patulin biosynthesis in Penicillium expansum43
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Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome42
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch42
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An atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters41
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA41
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutants from pharmaceutical companies41
Bacterial community dynamics on bats and the implications for pathogen resistance41
Carbon substrate re‐orders relative growth of a bacterium using Mo‐, V‐, or Fe‐nitrogenase for nitrogen fixation40
The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated by overlapping global regulatory elements that respond to nutritional cues40
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars39
Wolbachia in scale insects: a distinct pattern of infection frequencies and potential transfer routes via ant associates39
Environmental vibrio phage–bacteria interaction networks reflect the genetic structure of host populations39
Biogeography of culturable marine bacteria from both poles reveals that ‘everything is not everywhere’ at the genomic level38
Ornithine decarboxylase of the fungal pathogenColletotrichum higginsianumplays an important role in regulating global metabolic pathways and virulence38
Discovery of the non‐cosmopolitan lineages in Candidatus Thermoprofundales37
Low phosphate mitigates cadmium‐induced oxidative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by enhancing endogenous antioxidant defence system36
Physiological stage drives fungal community dynamics and diversity in Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka) flowers36
Symbiotic germination and development of fully mycoheterotrophic plants convergently targeting similar Glomeraceae taxa35
Drivers of fungal diversity and community biogeography differ between green roofs and adjacent ground‐level green space35
CARD‐FISH and prey tracer techniques reveal the role of overlooked flagellate groups as major bacterivores in freshwater hypertrophic shallow lakes35
High diversity of pathogenic Escherichia coli clones carrying mcr‐1 among gulls underlines the need for strategies at the environment–livestock–human interface35
Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt34
Fine‐scale mapping of physicochemical and microbial landscapes of the coral skeleton34
Oak Wilt Disease May Reduce the Initial Decay Rate of Dead Quercus serrata Stems by Altering Fungal Communities in the Wood33
Effects of Fire Intensity on Soil Microbial Ecology in a Grassland Ecosystem33
Coral holobiont research needs spatial analyses at the microbial scale33
Volatile Organic Compounds of Diverse Origins and Their Changes Associated With Cultivar Decay in a Fungus‐Farming Termite32
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Biodegradation of pollutants by exoelectrogenic bacteria is not always performed extracellularly31
A meta‐analysis study of the robustness and universality of gut microbiota–shrimp diseases relationship31
Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient31
Prophages carrying Zot toxins on different Vibrio genomes: A comprehensive assessment using multilayer networks31
Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment30
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter: Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits30
Toward an accurate mechanistic understanding of Wolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility30
Protein acetylation and deacetylation in plant‐pathogen interactions30
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and microbial evolution29
New Insight Into the Mechanism of Nitrite Enhancement on Heterotrophic Nitrification and Aerobic Denitrification Bacterium in Gene Expression29
Response of the plant core microbiome to Fusarium oxysporum infection and identification of the pathobiome29
Life strategies and metabolic interactions of core microbes during thiosulphate‐based denitrification29
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MoOpy2 is essential for fungal development, pathogenicity, and autophagy in Magnaporthe oryzae28
Nitrogen fertilization differentially affects the symbiotic capacity of two co‐occurring ectomycorrhizal species28
Seasonal variation significantly influenced the stochasticity of community assembly of amphibian symbiotic bacteria28
Comprehensive analysis of the regulatory network of blue‐light‐regulated conidiation and hydrophobin production in Trichoderma guizhouense28
Seasonal shifts in Fe‐acquisition strategies in Southern Ocean microbial communities revealed by metagenomics and autonomous sampling27
Diversity of novel archaeal viruses infecting methanogens discovered through coupling of stable isotope probing and metagenomics27
Core rhizosphere microbiome ofPanax notoginsengand its associations with belowground biomass and saponin contents27
A fungal powdery mildew pathogen induces extensive local and marginal systemic changes in the Arabidopsis thaliana microbiota27
Long‐range alteration of the physical environment mediates cooperation between Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarming colonies27
Synthesis of the unusual lipid bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate in environmental bacteria26
Evidence for reciprocal evolution of the global repressor Mlc and its cognate phosphotransferase system sugar transporter26
Geography and environmental pressure are predictive of class‐specific radioresistance in black fungi26
Fate of glacier surface snow‐originating bacteria in the glacier‐fed hydrologic continuums26
Distribution, causal agents, and infection dynamic of emerging ink disease of sweet chestnut in Southern Switzerland26
Unexpected role of electron‐transfer hub in direct degradation of pollutants by exoelectrogenic bacteria26
Unravelling Biodiversity, Assembly Mechanisms and Coexistence Patterns of Abundant and Rare Microeukaryotes in Water and Sediment: New Insights From Volcanic Lakes in Arxan Geopark25
Optimal Cell Length for Exploration and Exploitation in Chemotactic Planktonic Bacteria25
Environmental exposure more than plastic composition shapes marine microplastic‐associated bacterial communities inPacificversusCaribbeanfield incubations25
Enteroviruses in Water: Epidemiology, Detection and Inactivation25
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Highly Dynamic Archaeal and Bacterial Communities From the Surface to the Deep in the Atlantic Ocean25
Widespread formation of intracellular calcium carbonates by the bloom‐forming cyanobacterium Microcystis25
AwMelWolbachiavariant inAedes aegyptifrom field‐collectedDrosophila melanogasterwith increased phenotypic stability under heat stress24
Relationships between fluid mixing, biodiversity, and chemosynthetic primary productivity in Yellowstone hot springs24
How Useful Are Plant Traits in Explaining Variation in Phyllosphere Microbial Abundance and Composition Across Hosts?24
Cyanophage Infections in a Sponge Intracellular Cyanobacterial Symbiont24
Phytoplankton exudates provide full nutrition to a subset of accompanying heterotrophic bacteria via carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus allocation24
Ferroptosis induced by the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum enhances soybean resistance to Phytophthora sojae24
Revealing human impact on natural ecosystems through soil bacterial DNA sampled from an archaeological site24
Diversity and ecology of Radiolaria in modern oceans24
How good are global DNA‐based environmental surveys for detecting all protist diversity? Arcellinida as an example of biased representation23
A novel soluble di‐iron monooxygenase from the soil bacterium Solimonas soli23
Correction to “Preventing multiresistance: New insights for managing fungal adaptation”23
Time after time: detecting annual patterns in stream bacterial biofilm communities23
Correction to “Five structural genes required for ceramide synthesis in Caulobacter and for bacterial survival”23
Novel oil‐associated bacteria in Arctic seawater exposed to different nutrient biostimulation regimes23
Metabolic Segregation and Functional Gene Clusters in Anaerobic Digestion Consortia23
Linear scaling between microbial predator and prey densities in the global ocean23
The fitness benefit of pyoverdine cross‐feeding by Pseudomonas protegens Pf‐523
The filamentous γ‐prefoldin chaperone is not essential for growth and thermal adaptation in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii23
Phylogenomics, epigenomics, virulome and mobilome of Gram‐negative bacteria co‐resistant to carbapenems and polymyxins: a One Health systematic review and meta‐analyses22
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Microscale imaging sheds light on species‐specific strategies for photo‐regulation and photo‐acclimation of microphytobenthic diatoms22
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Biogeographical patterns of abundant and rare bacterial biospheres in paddy soils across East Asia22
Biodegradation in wastewater treatment plants: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology22
Membrane lipid renovation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ‐ implications for phage therapy?21
Resource availability drives bacteria community resistance to pathogen invasion via altering bacterial pairwise interactions21
Methylated cycloalkanes fuel a novel genus in the Porticoccaceae family (Ca. Reddybacter gen. nov)21
The brown root rot fungus Phellinus noxius affects microbial communities in different root‐associated niches of Ficus trees21
Climate dictates microbial community composition and diversity in Australian biological soil crusts (biocrusts)21
Oxic–anoxic cycling promotes coupling between complex carbon metabolism and denitrification in woodchip bioreactors21
CotG controls spore surface formation in response to the temperature of growth in Bacillus subtilis21
Respiratory protein interactions in Dehalobacter sp. strain 8M revealed through genomic and native proteomic analyses21
Viable but non‐cultivable state: a strategy for Staphylococcus aureus survivable in dual‐species biofilms with Pseudomonas aeruginosa?21
Novel virulent and temperate cyanophages predicted to infect Microcoleus associated with anatoxin‐producing benthic mats21
An ArsRC fusion protein enhances arsenate sensing and detoxification21
Inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction in forest soil microcosms by different forms of methanobactin20
Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports 2023 and onwards20
Sarracenia pitcher plant‐associated microbial communities differ primarily by host species across a longitudinal gradient20
Long‐term unsustainable patterns of development rather than recent deforestation caused the emergence of Orthocoronavirinae species20
Elevated O3 concentrations alter the compartment‐specific microbial communities inhabiting rust‐infected poplars20
Ecology of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species in India: the occurrence, resistance to biocides, genomic landscape and biocontrol20
Genome and proteome analyses show the gaseous alkane degrader Desulfosarcina sp. strain BuS5 as an extreme metabolic specialist19
Does diet breadth affect the complexity of the phytophagous insect microbiota? The case study of Chrysomelidae19
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Microbiome Stability Is Linked to Acropora Coral Thermotolerance in Northwestern Philippines19
Experimental evidence that lignin‐modifying enzymes are essential for degrading plant cell wall lignin byPleurotus ostreatususingCRISPR/Cas919
Countrywide inter‐epidemic region migration pattern suggests the role of southwestern population in wheat stripe rust epidemics in China19
Exploring the Exclusive Isolation of Pseudomonas syringae in Peltigera Lichens via Metabolite Analysis and Growth Assays19
Water Quality and Land Use Shape Bacterial Communities Across 621 Canadian Lakes19
Herbicides Have Minimal and Variable Effects on the Structure and Function of Bacterial Communities in Agricultural Soils19
The pH signalling transcription factor PacC modulate growth, development, stress response and pathogenicity of Trichothecium roseum19
A perspective on insect–microbe holobionts facing thermal fluctuations in a climate‐change context19
From ubiquity to specificity: The diverse functions of bacterial thioredoxin systems19
Microbial biofilms: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology18
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Golgi‐localized calcium/manganese transporters FgGdt1 and FgPmr1 regulate fungal development and virulence by maintaining Ca2+ and Mn2+ homeostasis in Fu18
Warm temperature inhibits cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by endosymbiotic Rickettsiella in spider hosts18
Differential apicomplexan presence predicts thermal stress mortality in the Mediterranean coral Paramuricea clavata18
Selective Pressure Influences Inter‐Biome Dispersal in the Assembly of Saline Microbial Communities18
High salinity gradients and intermediate spatial scales shaped similar biogeographical and co‐occurrence patterns of microeukaryotes in a tropical freshwater‐saltwater ecosystem18
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Metagenomic evidence of a novel family of anammox bacteria in a subsea environment18
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Production and utilization of pseudocobalamin in marine Synechococcus cultures and communities18
Diverse viruses of marine archaea discovered using metagenomics18
Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa18
Genome‐Scale Model of Rhizopus microsporus: Metabolic integration of a fungal holobiont with its bacterial and viral endosymbionts18
Novel broad‐spectrum bacteriophages against Xanthomonas oryzae and their biocontrol potential in rice bacterial diseases18
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Employing a triple metabarcoding approach to differentiate active, dormant and dead microeukaryotes in sediments18
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Isolation and characterization of a phage collection against Pseudomonas putida18
The two Pseudomonas aeruginosa DksA stringent response proteins are largely interchangeable at the whole transcriptome level and in the control of virulence‐related traits17
Bacterial inoculation ofQuercus pyrenaicatrees alters co‐occurrence patterns but not the composition of the rhizosphere bacteriome in wild conditions17
Multi‐omics analysis of antagonistic interactions among free‐living Pseudonocardia from diverse ecosystems17
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Diversification of Bacillus subtilis during experimental evolution on Arabidopsis thaliana and the complementarity in root colonization of evolved subpop17
Kinetic modulation of bacterial hydrolases by microbial community structure in coastal waters17
The tetrameric assembly of 2‐aminomuconic 6‐semialdehyde dehydrogenase is a functional requirement of cofactor NAD+ binding17
The current situation and potential effects of climate change on the microbial load of marine bivalves of the Greek coastlines: an integrative review17
Genetic Diversity and Anatoxin Profiles of Freshwater Benthic Cyanobacteria From Nova Scotia (Canada)17
Investigating the inoculum dynamics of Cladosporium on the surface of raspberry fruits and in the air17
Denitrification fractionates N and O isotopes of nitrate following a ratio independent of carbon sources in freshwaters17
Water deficit affects inter‐kingdom microbial connections in plant rhizosphere17
Uniform selective pressures within redox zones drive gradual changes in microbial community composition in hadal sediments17
Adaptation ofListeria monocytogenesto perturbation ofc‐di‐AMPmetabolism underpins its role in osmoadaptation and identifies a fosfomycin uptake system17
Microbial Community of a Sandy Beach Subterranean Estuary is Spatially Heterogeneous and Impacted by Winter Waves17
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Genetic Analysis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Biosynthesis Pathway Determines Four Distinct Thraustochytrid Types17
Stability of a dominant sponge‐symbiont in spite of antibiotic‐induced microbiome disturbance17
Towards risk assessment for antibiotic resistant pathogens in recycled water: a systematic review and summary of research needs16
Rehabilitation of the ‘bad guys’ for biocontrol applications16
Identification of dominant taxa of sooty moulds and their impact on the leaf microbiome16
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals different adaptation mechanisms for degradation of very long‐chain and normal long‐chain alkanes in Dietzia sp. DQ12‐45‐1b16
Fluid dynamics and cell‐bound Psl polysaccharide allows microplastic capture, aggregation and subsequent sedimentation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in water16
Experimental evolution of Pseudomonas putida under silver ion versus nanoparticle stress16
The bianchetto truffle (Tuber borchii) a lead‐resistant ectomycorrhizal fungus increases Quercus cerris phytoremediation potential16
Bacteriophages vehiculate a high amount of antibiotic resistance determinants of bacterial origin in the Orne River ecosystem16
Interactions between Bdellovibrio and like organisms and bacteria in biofilms: beyond predator–prey dynamics16
Marine microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology16
Microecosystem of yak rumen on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau is stable and is unaffected by soil or grass microbiota16
Following the flow—Microbial ecology in surface‐ and groundwaters in the glacial forefield of a rapidly retreating glacier in Iceland16
Long‐term fertilization and tillage regimes have limited effects on structuring bacterial and denitrifier communities in a sandy loam UK soil16
Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field16
Bacterial Dynamics in Newly Settled Acropora kenti: Insights From Inoculations With Individual Probiotic Candidates16
The cAMP‐PKA signalling pathway regulates hyphal growth, conidiation, trap morphogenesis, stress tolerance, and autophagy in Arthrobotrys oligospora16
Distinct strategies of the habitat generalists and specialists in sediment of Tibetan lakes16
Conditional filamentation as an adaptive trait of bacteria and its ecological significance in soils16
Web Alert: Microbes and plastics: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology16
Cryptic genetic structure and copy‐number variation in the ubiquitous forest symbiotic fungus Cenococcum geophilum16
Toward a molecular understanding of fluoride stress in a model Pseudomonas strain16
The 2‐methylpropene degradation pathway in Mycobacteriaceae family strains15
Tolerance to Herbicides and Resistance to Antibacterial Drugs of Bacterial Isolates From the Guarani Aquifer System (Brazil)15
Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species15
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Structural and functional microbial diversity in deadwood respond to decomposition dynamics15
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Bacteriophage–Bacteria Interactions Promote Ecological Multifunctionality in Compost‐Applied Soils15
Adaptive Responses of Cyanobacteria to Phosphate Limitation: A Focus on Marine Diazotrophs15
Prevalence of genetically similar Flavobacterium columnare phages across aquaculture environments reveals a strong potential for pathogen control15
Summer thaw duration is a strong predictor of the soil microbiome and its response to permafrost thaw in arctic tundra15
Functional analysis of the apple fruit microbiome based on shotgun metagenomic sequencing of conventional and organic orchard samples15
Microplastic ingestion affects hydrogen production and microbiomes in the gut of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber15
New Strains of the Deep Branching Streptophyte Streptofilum: Phylogenetic Position, Cell Biological and Ecophysiological Traits, and Description of Streptofilum arcticumsp. nov15
Isolation and characterization of a novel methanogen Methanosarcina hadiensis sp. nov. from subsurface Boom Clay pore water15
The Bacillus phage SPβ and its relatives: a temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management component15
Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine learning15
Drivers of Marine Phytoplankton Diversity and Connectivity in the Galápagos Archipelago Spanning an ENSO Cycle15
The secret life of plant‐beneficial rhizosphere bacteria: insects as alternative hosts15
Can we manage microbial systems to enhance carbon storage?15
Biosolids for safe land application: does wastewater treatment plant size matters when considering antibiotics, pollutants, microbiome, mobile genetic elements and associated resistance genes?15
Subcellular architecture and metabolic connection in the planktonic photosymbiosis between Collodaria (radiolarians) and their microalgae15
Cold Surface Waters of the Sub‐Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels15
Continuous Rice Cultivation Increases Celery Yield by Enhancing Plant Beneficial Bacteria in Rice‐Celery Rotations15
The Influence of Symbiont Identity on the Proteomic and Metabolomic Responses of the Model Cnidarian Aiptasia to Thermal Stress15
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Plant salt tolerance: ACC deaminase‐producing endophytes change plant proteomic profiles15
Unravelling the genomic and environmental diversity of the ubiquitous Solirubrobacter15
Gene Expression by a Model Fungus in the Ascomycota Provides Insight Into the Decay of Fungal Necromass15
Antidepressants: A new front in the war against antibiotics resistance15
Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands15
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Physiology and genetics of ethanologenesis in the acetogenic bacterium Acetobacterium woodii14
Wolbachia Feminises a Spider Host With Assistance From Co‐Infecting Symbionts14
Evolution under low antibiotic concentrations: a risk for the selection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa multidrug‐resistant mutants in nature14
Growth of nitrite‐oxidizing Nitrospira and ammonia‐oxidizing Nitrosomonas in marine recirculating trickling biofilter reactors14
Regulation of environmental stress responses: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology14
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Correction to “Mixed‐mode bacterial transmission in the common brooding coral Pocillopora acuta14
The rice foot rot pathogen Dickeya zeae alters the in‐field plant microbiome14
Antarctic Geothermal Soils Exhibit an Absence of Regional Habitat Generalist Microorganisms14
The exometabolome of microbial communities inhabiting bare ice surfaces on the southern Greenland Ice Sheet14
Metatranscriptomes reveal the diverse responses of Thaumarchaeota ecotypes to environmental variations in the northern slope of the South China Sea14
Genetic variation is associated with differences in facilitative and competitive interactions in the Rhizobium leguminosarum species complex14
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Short‐term plastisphere colonization dynamics across six plastic types14
Microplastics reduce soil microbial network complexity and ecological deterministic selection14
Disentangle genus microdiversity within a complex microbial community by using a multi‐distance long‐read binning method: example of Candidatus Accumulibacter14
Gene expression in the microbial consortia of colonial Microcystis aeruginosa‐a potential buoyant particulate biofilm14
Individual Microcystis colonies harbour distinct bacterial communities that differ by Microcystis oligotype and with time14
Correction to “Azospirillum baldaniorum Sp245 exploits Pseudomonas fluorescensA506 biofilm to overgrow in dual‐species macrocolonies”14
Complex and flexible catabolism in Aromatoleum aromaticumpCyN114
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