Chemosynthetic bacteria have been documented in various marine environments and in association with invertebrate hosts such as annelid worms and mollusks, but their presence in fish appears to be a…

Er klinken voorzichtig positieve geluiden over de stikstofvoorstellen van het kabinet Jetten, maar wie de inhoud bekijkt, ziet opvallend veel overeenkomsten met eerdere gestrande voorstellen. De gebre...

Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

Resource supply is generally considered a dominant driver of microbial diversity. Here, using a four-species bacterial consortium, we asked whether...

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Abstract. Rhabdastrella is a subtropical/tropical demosponge genus holding 18 species distributed predominantly in the Indo-Pacific region. Rhabdastrella i

Satellite measurements of chlorophyll at the sea surface signal shifts in the ocean’s nutrient supplies in mid-2026.

Studenten die na hun afstuderen in Nederland blijven wonen en werken, compenseren het geld dat de overheid tijdens hun studie aan hen uitgeeft gemiddeld ruimschoots.

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to 14 publishers for open access (OA) between 2019 and 2025. APCs are charged for publishing in fully ...

Viruses dominate the deep-ocean biosphere (>200-m depth) yet remain profoundly understudied. As the most abundant biological entities on Earth, they govern the geochemistry, evolution, and ecology ...

This study shows that the degradation of microbial storage polyhydroxyalkanoates is not just restricted to microorganisms by finding that some animals also have the enzymes required to break down thes...

Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new My...

Marine oxygen deficient and dead zones are economically and ecologically important regions with unique impacts on marine nutrient cycling and biogeochemistry. Climatic impact-drivers expected to affec...

The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a primordia...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges for global food security, requiring new approaches to understand and harness the natural diversity that enables plants and their associated microbiomes...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major driver of microbial adaptation and evolution, yet how habitat type and anthropogenic pressures shape communi…

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01355-2In a recent study, Karash and colleagues provide evidence for a resistance mechanism in which plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance genes are horizontally transferred from transiently infecting bacteria to antibiotic-sensitive pathogens residing in patients’ lungs.