Populations of the shallow-water Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, are being
decimated by white pox disease, with losses of living cover in the Florida Keys typically in …

Several features common to a Western lifestyle, including obesity and low levels of physical
activity, are known risk factors for gastrointestinal cancers 1 . There is substantial evidence …

The enzymes of bacteriophages and other viruses have been essential research tools since
the first days of molecular biology. However, the current repertoire of viral enzymes only …

The microbial communities of high‐latitude ecosystems are expected to experience rapid
changes over the next century due to climate warming and increased deposition of reactive …

A bacterium previously isolated from a diseased colony of the scleractinian coral Dichocoenia
stokesi (common name elliptical star coral) was subjected to a detailed polyphasic …

Understanding how phenotypes emerge from genotypes is a foundational goal in biology.
As challenging as this task is when considering cellular life, it is further complicated in the …

The bacterial and temperature factors leading to yellow blotch/band disease (YBD), which
affects the major reef-building Caribbean corals Montastrea spp., have been investigated. …

Analysis of microbial communities by high-throughput pyrosequencing of SSU rRNA gene
PCR amplicons has transformed microbial ecology research and led to the observation that …

One consistent finding among studies using shotgun metagenomics to analyze whole viral
communities is that most viral sequences show no significant homology to known sequences. …

Construction of DNA fragment libraries for next-generation sequencing can prove challenging,
especially for samples with low DNA yield. Protocols devised to circumvent the problems …