Microbial responses to environmental changes

• Main Author: Stuart E. G. Findlay (auth)
• Other Authors: Jerome Comte (auth), Jurg B. Logue (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); microbial community composition; ecosystem functioning; next-generation sequencing; micro-organism; environmental change; microbial diversity; microbial ecology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Advances in next generation sequencing technologies, omics, and bioinformatics are revealing a tremendous and unsuspected diversity of microbes, both at a compositional and functional level. Moreover, the expansion of ecological concepts into microbial ecology has greatly advanced our comprehension...