A forest fire sweeps everything in its path. It drastically alters the soil environment, causing extreme temperatures, ...

Healthy trees contain more than one trillion different bacteria, fungi and viruses, a new study has found. These wood microbiomes could hold clues about forest health and climate change.

This tutorial shows an easiy way to reconstruct a phylogenetic tree from whole genome bacterial genomes. The workflow identifies orthologous single-copy genes shared between several bacteria genomes ...

The microbes found aboard the ISS encompassed only about 6 percent of the major clades on the bacterial phylogenetic tree. By comparison, homes on Earth host between 10 and 15 percent of these ...

Phylogenetic tree obtained from 16S ribosomal sequences with the neighbor-joining method. The values in the branches represent the bootstrap support for a subsequent division.

We defined specialization as the level of phylogenetic similarity among hosts that a bacterial symbiont associates with. We found that host taxonomic identity and traits were important drivers of ...

Antimicrobial activity was tested against fungi, gram-positive, and gram-negative bacteria using a broth serial microdilution method, while antioxidant activity was evaluated using ...

With thousands of homologous biosynthetic gene clusters throughout the bacterial phylogenetic tree, bufferins form by far the largest family of RiPPs modified by multinuclear nonheme iron-dependent ...

In a previous study we have extensively benchmarked methods for the reconstruction of high-resolution phylogenetic trees of Bacteria and Archaea using these genes (Martinez-Gutierrez and Aylward, 2021 ...