Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective

Phytoplankton traits predict ecosystem function in a global set of lakes

(2015) Jacob A. Zwart et al.   ECOLOGY

Dispersing misconceptions and identifying opportunities for the use of 'omics' in soil microbial ecology

(2015) James I. Prosser   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Functional guild classification predicts the enzymatic role of fungi in litter and soil biogeochemistry

(2015) Jennifer M. Talbot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Genomic Potential for Polysaccharide Deconstruction in Bacteria

(2014) Renaud Berlemont et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations

(2014) Jack A Gilbert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome

(2014) Julia K. Goodrich et al.   CELL

Evolutionary histories of soil fungi are reflected in their large-scale biogeography

(2014) Kathleen K. Treseder et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A social–ecological framework for “micromanaging” microbial services

(2014) Ariane L Peralta et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Reset of a critically disturbed microbial ecosystem: faecal transplant in recurrent Clostridium difficile infection

(2014) Susana Fuentes et al.   ISME Journal

The influence of phylogenetic relatedness on species interactions among freshwater green algae in a mesocosm experiment

(2014) Patrick A. Venail et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Explaining microbial genomic diversity in light of evolutionary ecology

(2014) Otto X. Cordero et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Impact of ocean phytoplankton diversity on phosphate uptake

(2014) Michael W. Lomas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Different paths to pathogenesis

(2014) Jonathan P. Allen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Functional traits explain phytoplankton responses to environmental gradients across lakes of the United States

(2013) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY

Productivity and salinity structuring of the microplankton revealed by comparative freshwater metagenomics

(2013) Alexander Eiler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microdiversity of extracellular enzyme genes among sequenced prokaryotic genomes

(2013) Amy E Zimmerman et al.   ISME Journal

Propionibacterium acnes Strain Populations in the Human Skin Microbiome Associated with Acne

(2013) Sorel Fitz-Gibbon et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

The abundance and variety of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the human gut microbiota

(2013) Abdessamad El Kaoutari et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases

(2013) Ron Caspi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Positive Effects of Bacterial Diversity on Ecosystem Functioning Driven by Complementarity Effects in a Bioremediation Context

(2013) Patrick A. Venail et al.   PLoS One

A trait-based framework to understand life history of mycorrhizal fungi

(2013) Pierre-Luc Chagnon et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Bacterial skin commensals and their role as host guardians

(2013) G.J.M. Christensen et al.   Beneficial Microbes

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

(2013) Sandra Díaz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A Guide to Enterotypes across the Human Body: Meta-Analysis of Microbial Community Structures in Human Microbiome Datasets

(2013) Omry Koren et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Phylogenetic Distribution of Potential Cellulases in Bacteria

(2012) Renaud Berlemont et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mapping the niche space of soil microorganisms using taxonomy and traits

(2012) Jay T. Lennon et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

(2012) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Lineage-dependent ecological coherence in bacteria

(2012) Alexander F. Koeppel et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Microbial composition affects the functioning of estuarine sediments

(2012) Heather E Reed et al.   ISME Journal

Global distribution and diversity of marine Verrucomicrobia

(2012) Sara Freitas et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogenetic conservatism of functional traits in microorganisms

(2012) Adam C Martiny et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial ecology of expanding oxygen minimum zones

(2012) Jody J. Wright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes shaping the microbial landscape

(2012) China A. Hanson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Complex Carbohydrate Utilization by the Healthy Human Microbiome

(2012) Brandi L. Cantarel et al.   PLoS One

Rapid diversification of coevolving marine Synechococcus and a virus

(2012) M. F. Marston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses result from sequential resuscitation of phylogenetically clustered microbial groups

(2012) S. A. Placella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome

(2012) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Crystal ball - 2013

(2012) Tom Curtis et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

A trait-based framework for predicting when and where microbial adaptation to climate change will affect ecosystem functioning

(2011) Matthew D. Wallenstein et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Multi-locus sequence analysis, taxonomic resolution and biogeography of marine Synechococcus

(2011) Sophie Mazard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The decoupling between genetic structure and metabolic phenotypes in Escherichia coli leads to continuous phenotypic diversity

(2011) V. SABARLY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genomic island variability facilitates Prochlorococcus–virus coexistence

(2011) Sarit Avrani et al.   NATURE

Human nutrition, the gut microbiome and the immune system

(2011) Andrew L. Kau et al.   NATURE

The skin microbiome

(2011) Elizabeth A. Grice et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

(2011) Jay T. Lennon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Niche specialization of terrestrial archaeal ammonia oxidizers

(2011) C. Gubry-Rangin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes

(2011) G. D. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks

(2010) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microorganisms and climate change: terrestrial feedbacks and mitigation options

(2010) Brajesh K. Singh et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ecosystem-specific selection pressures revealed through comparative population genomics

(2010) M. L. Coleman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Characterization of Prochlorococcus clades from iron-depleted oceanic regions

(2010) D. B. Rusch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Systemic Imprint of Growth and Its Uses in Ecological (Meta)Genomics

(2010) Sara Vieira-Silva et al.   PLoS Genetics

Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale

(2009) C. L. Lauber et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spatial patterns of bacterial taxa in nature reflect ecological traits of deep branches of the 16S rRNA bacterial tree

(2009) Laurent Philippot et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Occurrence of phosphate acquisition genes inProchlorococcuscells from different ocean regions

(2009) Adam C. Martiny et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The NIH Human Microbiome Project

(2009) et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses

(2009) Ryan T Jones et al.   ISME Journal

Topographical and Temporal Diversity of the Human Skin Microbiome

(2009) E. A. Grice et al.   SCIENCE

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton

(2008) Elena Litchman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Taxonomic resolution, ecotypes and the biogeography ofProchlorococcus

(2008) Adam C. Martiny et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Micron-scale mapping of sulfur cycling across the oxycline of a cyanobacterial mat: a paired nanoSIMS and CARD-FISH approach

(2008) David Andrew Fike et al.   ISME Journal

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

(2008) M. W. Cadotte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial Biogeography: From Taxonomy to Traits

(2008) J. L. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Simultaneous analysis of microbial identity and function using NanoSIMS

(2007) Tianlun Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY