Oxygen is one of the most important environmental variables affecting microbial activity and composition, but is often difficult to measure in situ. We developed a tool, OxyMetaG, that leverages diffe...

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Recent advances in anaerobic microbiology have driven significant progress in biotechnology, environmental microbiology, and biochemistry. Anaerobes play key roles in sustainable biotechnological pro…

Sabnis et al. explain why non-conjugative plasmids move at a low rate in nature. While increased mobility can easily evolve by incorporating phage DNA into plasmids, this is disadvantageous because it...

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This Perspective discusses the application of ecological principles of macro-ecosystems to microbiome engineering. The authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of th...

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This protocol enables rigorous and reproducible quantification of prokaryotic concentration in stool samples by 16S rRNA qPCR or ddPCR.

by Christoph — If you'd ask people around you which hand tool characterizes a professional microbiologist, they would probably come up with the microscope. Much like hammer and saw would be named as t...

by Christoph — Exactly eight years ago today, we introduced you to the 'Hedgehogs In Your Garden'. No, we had not turned our backs on the Small Things and became gardeners instead. Again today, it is ...

The <em>Journal of Microscopy</em> is the oldest journal dedicated to the science of microscopy, publishing the latest advances in microscopy techniques and novel areas of application.

Protein synthesis is an important determinant of microbial growth and response that demands a high amount of metabolic and biosynthetic resources. Des…

Long-term experimental evolution and modelling show the evolution of small and large cluster-forming lineages of snowflake yeast that coexist over generations due to a trade-off between organismal siz...