Most natural environments harbour a stunningly diverse collection of microbial species. In
these communities, bacteria compete with their neighbours for space and resources. …

Bacterial toxins represent a vast reservoir of biochemical diversity that can be repurposed for
biomedical applications. Such proteins include a group of predicted interbacterial toxins of …

The type VI secretion system (T6SS) mediates interactions between a broad range of Gram-negative
bacterial species. Recent studies have led to a substantial increase in the number …

Advances in microscopy hold great promise for allowing quantitative and precise measurement
of morphological and molecular phenomena at the single-cell level in bacteria; however, …

… s within a lake water community to solar radiation and dissolved organic matter from lake,
algal, or soil sources. Functionally defined assemblages, such as guilds, … such as S-LIBSHUFF, …

Bacteroidetes are a phylum of Gram-negative bacteria abundant in mammalian-associated
polymicrobial communities, where they impact digestion, immunity, and resistance to infection…

Using a combination of bacterial and phage-targeted metagenomics, we analyzed two
geographically remote sludge bioreactors enriched in a single bacterial species Candidatus …

10.7554/eLife.05701.001 The perception and response to cellular death is an important
aspect of multicellular eukaryotic life. For example, damage-associated molecular patterns …

10.7554/eLife.26938.001 The Firmicutes are a phylum of bacteria that dominate numerous
polymicrobial habitats of importance to human health and industry. Although these …

Bacteria in polymicrobial habitats contend with a persistent barrage of competitors, often
under rapidly changing environmental conditions 1 . The direct antagonism of competitor cells …