Background Prokaryotes dominate the biosphere and regulate biogeochemical processes
essential to all life. Yet, our knowledge about their biology is for the most part limited to the …

Forensic DNA analysis is routinely performed using polymorphic short tandem repeat (STR)
markers. However, for degraded or minute DNA samples, analysis of autosomal single …

Background Infectious disease involving multiple genetically distinct populations of pathogens
is frequently concurrent, but difficult to detect or describe with current routine methodology…

Short tandem repeats (STRs) are highly variable, and therefore routinely used in forensic
investigations for a DNA-based individual identification. The routine assay is commonly …

Dendritic cells and macrophages are integral parts of the innate immune system and gatekeepers
against infection. The protozoan pathogen, Toxoplasma gondii, is known to hijack host …

The mitochondrial hypervariable regions I and II have proven to be a useful target for
analysis of forensic materials, in which the amount of DNA is limited or highly degraded. …

Mixotrophic protists are capable of acting both as primary producers and primary consumers
at the base of the aquatic food web, thus constituting key organisms in ecosystems where …

The permanently anoxic waters in meromictic lakes create suitable niches for the growth of
bacteria using sulphur metabolisms like sulphur oxidation. In Lake Pavin, the anoxic water …

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems and fundamental for
planetary processes and ecosystem functioning. While the link between microbial community …

In forensic casework analysis, rapid and flexible systems for detection of variation found in
nuclear or mitochondrial genomes are valuable. We have developed several different typing …