Here the authors propose guidance on the process of establishing a state-of-the-art collection of microorganisms, including project planning, strain deposition and the naming of new taxa.

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Dietary fibers are a primary energy source for gut bacteria and shape the composition and function of the microbiome. Now, an active learning approach integrating explainable machine learning, Bayesia...

Increasing nutrient diversity is expected to promote microbial diversity. This study shows that more complex environments can enhance resource uptake, intensify competition and lead to microbial biodi...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a driving force in microbial evolution that allows community members to rapidly evolve to cope with environmental stressors and competition. Despite the importance of...

Synthetic microbial ecology aims at designing communities with desired properties based on mathematical models of individual organisms. It is unclear whether simplified models harbor enough detail to ...

Effective presentations require clarity and audience awareness. In this Comment, Itai Yanai outlines common misconceptions about presentations and how to address them to deliver more impactful and ins...

Anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea mitigate methane emissions in anoxic environments. Here, Egas et al. show that these microbes can also oxidize carbon monoxide, prompting re-evaluation of their cla...

Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality, yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain p...

Microbial ecologists are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) models to better identify and predict meaningful biological patterns and relationships in molecular microbial community data (inc...

In soil ecosystems, aerobic bacteria survive oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) by entering nonreplicative persistent states. In contrast to the well-stu...

A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.

Understanding microbial communities requires moving beyond 2D representations toward a holistic view that couples 3D spatial organization with ecologi…

Microbial interactions hold vast potential for improving sustainability, including waste upcycling, greenhouse gas mitigation, contaminant bioremediation, and host performance. However, attempts to ma...

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 24 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02318-2Cayman enables computational analysis of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in microbial community data. It revealed novel mucus-foraging gut microorganisms and differences in gut microbial CAZyme repertoires associated with lifestyle and disease.

Biotic interactions modulate protein abundance, reducing functional redundancy and increasing productivity in complex bacterial communities.

A comparison of sequencing of complex mock communities performed at multiple depths and analysed using different methods establishes minimum standards that can ensure the accuracy of metagenomic analy...

Escherichia coli is widespread in healthy breastfed infants, yet its ecological role is unclear. Here, the authors provide insights into the mechanisms supporting its persistence and co-existence with...

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The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life.

Abstract. When environmental bacteria transition to laboratory conditions, a process termed domestication, the shift from the native habitat to a culture m

Animal Microbiome - The gut microbiome is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that plays an important role in determining ruminant health, productivity, and environmental footprint. Its plasticity...

Memory and learning are cognitive abilities typically associated with animals that possess a complex nervous system. Interestingly, recent studies sug…

Understanding microbial communities requires moving beyond 2D representations toward a holistic view that couples 3D spatial organization with ecological function, integrating microbial inventories, g...

Background Urban lifestyles are characterized by reduced encounters of environmental microbe stimuli that activate immunoregulatory pathways. This has been linked to an increased risk of inflammatory ...

Abstract. Gut microbial communities often differ at the strain level among individual hosts, but the mechanisms driving this variation remain poorly unders

The increasing demand for sustainable and renewable energy sources has intensified research efforts on the development of efficient lignocellulose bio…

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