Does diversity beget diversity in microbiomes?

Extant timetrees are consistent with a myriad of diversification histories

(2020) Stilianos Louca et al.   NATURE

A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity

(2019) Stilianos Louca et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

(2018) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial biogeography of 925 geothermal springs in New Zealand

(2018) Jean F. Power et al.   Nature Communications

Bacterial diversification through geological time

(2018) Stilianos Louca et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

(2018) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   NATURE

A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life

(2018) Donovan H Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

An enormous potential for niche construction through bacterial cross-feeding in a homogeneous environment

(2018) Magdalena San Roman et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability

(2018) Frank Pennekamp et al.   NATURE

A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

(2017) Luke R. Thompson et al.   NATURE

Speciation gradients and the distribution of biodiversity

(2017) Dolph Schluter et al.   NATURE

Linking Statistical and Ecological Theory: Hubbell's Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity as a Hierarchical Dirichlet Process

(2017) Keith Harris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Generalist species drive microbial dispersion and evolution

(2017) Sira Sriswasdi et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity spurs diversification in ecological communities

(2017) Vincent Calcagno et al.   Nature Communications

Five palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota

(2017) Charles R. Marshall   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Statistical mechanics of ecological systems: Neutral theory and beyond

(2016) Sandro Azaele et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Biotic Interactions Shape the Ecological Distributions of Staphylococcus Species

(2016) Erik K. Kastman et al.   mBio

Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body

(2016) Ron Sender et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Pronounced daily succession of phytoplankton, archaea and bacteria following a spring bloom

(2016) David M. Needham et al.   Nature Microbiology

A new view of the tree of life

(2016) Laura A. Hug et al.   Nature Microbiology

High functional diversity stimulates diversification in experimental microbial communities

(2016) A. Jousset et al.   Science Advances

Testing the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity with Human Microbiome Datasets

(2016) Lianwei Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Species Richness at Continental Scales Is Dominated by Ecological Limits

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

(2015) S. Sunagawa et al.   SCIENCE

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

(2015) K. Z. Coyte et al.   SCIENCE

Why are some microbes more ubiquitous than others? Predicting the habitat breadth of soil bacteria

(2014) Albert Barberán et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

(2014) Trevor D. Price et al.   NATURE

Extension of Nakagawa & Schielzeth'sR2GLMMto random slopes models

(2014) Paul C.D. Johnson   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Nutrient cross-feeding in the microbial world

(2014) Erica C. Seth et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Real-time microbial adaptive diversification in soil

(2013) Pedro Gómez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competition both drives and impedes diversification in a model adaptive radiation

(2013) S. F. Bailey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss

(2012) J. J. Morris et al.   mBio

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A species concept for bacteria based on adaptive divergence

(2010) Michiel Vos   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

Inferring clocks when lacking rocks: the variable rates of molecular evolution in bacteria

(2009) Chih-Horng Kuo et al.   Biology Direct

Deletional Bias across the Three Domains of Life

(2009) Chih-Horng Kuo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Global ecological patterns in uncultured Archaea

(2009) Jean-Christophe Auguet et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle

(2009) Michael E. Hibbing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Estimating the size of the bacterial pan-genome

(2009) Pascal Lapierre et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE