Indoor environments contain distinct microbial communities shaped by building design, ventilation, human activity, and ...

The ocular surface hosts a low-abundance microbial community that may help regulate immune defenses, while changes in its ...

A new machine learning study identifies ten key bacterial species and visualizes the abundance thresholds that separate ...

Microbial communities are constantly exposed to the invasion of exogenous species, which can significantly alter their composition and function. The capacity of a microbial community to resist ...

How can computer models help design microbial communities? A research team comprising members from Aachen, Düsseldorf and East Lansing/U.S. examined the development perspectives of so-called synthetic ...

A temperate forest experiment shows that as trees grow larger, the main driver of leaf litter decomposition shifts from ...

Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play. Bacteria don’t throw dinner parties or tell jokes, but they ...

In a new study, researchers have determined through both statistical analysis and in experiments that soil pH is a driver of microbial community composition -- but that the need to address toxicity ...