A mollusk's microbial community has more to do with its family tree than its address. In other words, the composition of a ...

Edeline Anthoniraj, a doctoral student in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, is digging into what happens to ...

A University of Arizona mesocosm experiment shows that more diverse soil microbial communities produce extracellular ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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