Metagenomics is the study of all organisms present in a particular environment, such as soil, water, or the human body. A key ...

Changing the way microbes are classified can reveal similarities among mammals' gut microbiomes, according to a new study. The study, published in mBio, proposed an alternative method for classifying ...

Microbial diversity has become a leitmotiv of contemporary microbiology, as epitomized in the concept of the microbiome, with significant consequences for the classification of microbes. In this paper ...