Background Soil bacteria are important drivers for nearly all biogeochemical cycles in
terrestrial ecosystems and participate in most nutrient transformations in soil. In contrast to the …

Background Among the various biochemical markers, fatty acids or lipid profiles represent a
chemically relatively inert class of compounds that is easy to isolate from biological material. …

Speciation via hybridization and polyploidization is a major evolutionary force in plant evolution
but is still poorly understood for neopolyploid groups. Challenges are attributed to high …

Although temporal heterogeneity is a well-accepted driver of biodiversity, effects of interannual
variation in land-use intensity (LUI) have not been addressed yet. Additionally, responses …

Chlorella and Stichococcus are morphologically simple airborne microalgae, omnipresent
in terrestrial and aquatic habitats. The minute cell size and resistance against environmental …

The cyanobacterial diversity of soils of the A tacama D esert ( C hile) was investigated using
16S r RNA gene cloning/sequencing directly from soil samples and 16S r RNA gene …

Meiosis, the key step of sexual reproduction, persists in facultative apomictic plants functional
to some extent. However, it still remains unclear how and why proportions of reproductive …

The reconstruction of reticulate evolutionary histories in plants is still a major methodological
challenge. Sequences of the ITS nrDNA are a popular marker to analyze hybrid …

The time frame and geographical patterns of diversification processes in European
temperate‐montane herbs are still not well understood. We used the sexual species of the …

The diversity of eukaryotic microorganisms is far from fully described, as indicated by the vast
number of unassigned genotypes retrieved by environmental sequencing or metagenomics…