Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water ...

Nevertheless, different bacterial species may be doing similar jobs in different ... and not every body site contained members of all the major groups, or phyla, of bacteria known to colonize the ...

Microbial communities are groups of microorganisms that share a common living space. The microbial populations that form the community can interact in different ways, for example as predators and ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research have developed an innovative system called MetaFlowTrain ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify ...

Soil is probably the most complex and heterogeneous microbial habitat on earth. The diversity of soil microbial communities exceeds that of other environments. Soil metagenomics is a cultivation ...