To the Editor—Rapid advances in DNA-sequencing and bioinformatics technologies in the
past two decades have substantially improved understanding of the microbial world. This …

Acidobacteria are ubiquitous and abundant members of soil bacterial communities. However,
an ecological understanding of this important phylum has remained elusive because its …

We present QIIME 2, an opensource microbiome data science platform accessible to users
spanning the microbiome research ecosystem, from scientists and engineers to clinicians …

Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for microbiome …

Recent studies have highlighted the surprising richness of soil bacterial communities; however,
bacteria are not the only microorganisms found in soil. To our knowledge, no study has …

Microbial communities in plant roots provide critical links between above‐ and belowground
processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Variation in root communities has been attributed to …

We have implemented in Python the COmparative GENomic Toolkit, a fully integrated and
thoroughly tested framework for novel probabilistic analyses of biological sequences, devising …

With the advancement of next-generation sequencing and mass spectrometry, there is a
growing need for the ability to merge biological features in order to study a system as a whole. …

Bacteria from the genus Polaromonas are dominant phylotypes in clone libraries and culture
collections from polar and high-elevation environments. Although Polaromonas has been …

North American bison (Bison bison) are becoming increasingly important to both grassland
management and commercial ranching. However, a lack of quantitative data on their diet …