Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

Horizontal transfers of transposable elements in eukaryotes: The flying genes

(2016) Olivier Panaud   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Climate and edaphic controllers influence rhizosphere community assembly for a wild annual grass

(2016) Erin E. Nuccio et al.   ECOLOGY

Consortia of low-abundance bacteria drive sulfate reduction-dependent degradation of fermentation products in peat soil microcosms

(2016) Bela Hausmann et al.   ISME Journal

Lack of functional redundancy in the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

(2016) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity

(2016) Kenneth J. Locey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages

(2016) Rafael P. Leitão et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of Salinity and Inundation on Microbial Community Structure and Function in a Mangrove Peat Soil

(2016) Lisa G. Chambers et al.   WETLANDS

Revisiting the Dilution Procedure Used To Manipulate Microbial Biodiversity in Terrestrial Systems

(2015) Yan Yan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Resource pulses can alleviate the biodiversity–invasion relationship in soil microbial communities

(2015) Cyrus A. Mallon et al.   ECOLOGY

Non-random species loss in bacterial communities reduces antifungal volatile production

(2015) W. H. Gera Hol et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence for an active rare biosphere within freshwater protists community

(2015) Didier Debroas et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

(2015) Michael D. J. Lynch et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The extent of functional redundancy changes as species’ roles shift in different environments

(2015) Ingo Fetzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Community rescue in experimental metacommunities

(2015) Etienne Low-Décarie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comment on "Global diversity and geography of soil fungi"

(2015) C. W. Schadt et al.   SCIENCE

Resuscitation of the rare biosphere contributes to pulses of ecosystem activity

(2015) Zachary T. Aanderud et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Context dependency and saturating effects of loss of rare soil microbes on plant productivity

(2015) W. H. Gera Hol et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Assessing the global phylum level diversity within the bacterial domain: A review

(2015) Noha H. Youssef et al.   Journal of Advanced Research

Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons: catabolic genes, microbial communities, and applications

(2014) Sebastián Fuentes et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

(2014) Albert Barberán et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impact of single-cell genomics and metagenomics on the emerging view of extremophile “microbial dark matter”

(2014) Brian P. Hedlund et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Adhesion as a weapon in microbial competition

(2014) Jonas Schluter et al.   ISME Journal

Ecological roles of dominant and rare prokaryotes in acid mine drainage revealed by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

(2014) Zheng-Shuang Hua et al.   ISME Journal

Nature's microbiome: introduction

(2014) Jacob A. Russell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Improving the genetic representation of rare taxa within complex microbial communities using DNA normalization methods

(2014) Dragana Gagic et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Syntrophic exchange in synthetic microbial communities

(2014) M. T. Mee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Conditionally Rare Taxa Disproportionately Contribute to Temporal Changes in Microbial Diversity

(2014) A. Shade et al.   mBio

Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

(2014) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Cell Size Distributions of Soil Bacterial and Archaeal Taxa

(2013) Maria C. Portillo et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Novel multispecies microbial consortia involved in lignocellulose and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural bioconversion

(2013) Diego Javier Jiménez et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Migration and niche partitioning simultaneously increase species richness and rarity

(2013) Dexiecuo Ai et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Alkane-degrading bacteria at the soil-litter interface: comparing isolates with T-RFLP-based community profiles

(2013) Julia Giebler et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial minorities modulate methane consumption through niche partitioning

(2013) Paul LE Bodelier et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial Diversity and Structure Are Drivers of the Biological Barrier Effect against Listeria monocytogenes in Soil

(2013) Anne-Laure Vivant et al.   PLoS One

Widespread decay of vitamin-related pathways: coincidence or consequence?

(2013) Katherine E. Helliwell et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Stability of soil microbial structure and activity depends on microbial diversity

(2013) Vincent Tardy et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Impact of microbial diversity depletion on xenobiotic degradation by sewage-activated sludge

(2013) Guillermina Hernandez-Raquet et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Evolutionary history predicts the stability of cooperation in microbial communities

(2013) Alexandre Jousset et al.   Nature Communications

The mean and variance of phylogenetic diversity under rarefaction

(2013) David A. Nipperess et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

High bacterial biodiversity increases degradation performance of hydrocarbons during bioremediation of contaminated harbor marine sediments

(2012) Antonio Dell'Anno et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microbial diversity determines the invasion of soil by a bacterial pathogen

(2012) J. D. van Elsas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities

(2012) J. L. M. Rodrigues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low-Abundance Biofilm Species Orchestrates Inflammatory Periodontal Disease through the Commensal Microbiota and Complement

(2011) George Hajishengallis et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species

(2011) Glenda Yenni et al.   ECOLOGY

Diversity and dynamics of rare and of resident bacterial populations in coastal sands

(2011) Angélique Gobet et al.   ISME Journal

Transcriptional and antagonistic responses of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 to phylogenetically different bacterial competitors

(2011) Paolina Garbeva et al.   ISME Journal

More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species

(2011) E. Allan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Activity of abundant and rare bacteria in a coastal ocean

(2011) B. J. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competitive and cooperative metabolic interactions in bacterial communities

(2011) Shiri Freilich et al.   Nature Communications

Microorganisms with Novel Dissimilatory (Bi)Sulfite Reductase Genes Are Widespread and Part of the Core Microbiota in Low-Sulfate Peatlands

(2010) Doris Steger et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An integrative approach to understanding microbial diversity: from intracellular mechanisms to community structure

(2010) Ivana Gudelj et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Reduction of rare soil microbes modifies plant-herbivore interactions

(2010) W. H. Gera Hol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa

(2010) Diana R. Nemergut et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A ‘rare biosphere’ microorganism contributes to sulfate reduction in a peatland

(2010) Michael Pester et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of bacteria associated with cystic fibrosis

(2010) Adam M Guss et al.   ISME Journal

Function-specific response to depletion of microbial diversity

(2010) Hannes Peter et al.   ISME Journal

Partitioning core and satellite taxa from within cystic fibrosis lung bacterial communities

(2010) Christopher J van der Gast et al.   ISME Journal

Trade-Offs between Competition and Defense Specialists among Unicellular Planktonic Organisms: the "Killing the Winner" Hypothesis Revisited

(2010) C. Winter et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Molecular and regulatory properties of a public good shape the evolution of cooperation

(2010) R. Kummerli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When metagenomics meets stable-isotope probing: progress and perspectives

(2010) Yin Chen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Contrasting Soil pH Effects on Fungal and Bacterial Growth Suggest Functional Redundancy in Carbon Mineralization

(2009) J. Rousk et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Intertwined interspecies relationships: approaches to untangle the microbial network

(2009) Shin Haruta et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quantifying the relative importance of niches and neutrality for coexistence in a model microbial system

(2009) Quan-Guo Zhang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predators promote defence of rhizosphere bacterial populations by selective feeding on non-toxic cheaters

(2009) Alexandre Jousset et al.   ISME Journal

Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

(2009) Francisco Rodriguez-Valera et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

An evaluation of the functional significance of peat microorganisms using a reciprocal transplant approach

(2009) Pedro A. Dimitriu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Coexistence of Antibiotic-Producing and Antibiotic-Sensitive Bacteria in Biofilms Is Mediated by Resistant Bacteria

(2008) N. Narisawa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A single-cell view on the ecophysiology of anaerobic phototrophic bacteria

(2008) N. Musat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity and extinction: the importance of being common

(2008) Kevin J. Gaston   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

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

Simultaneous analysis of microbial identity and function using NanoSIMS

(2007) Tianlun Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY