Fluctuations in environmental osmolarity are ubiquitous stress factors in many natural habitats
of microorganisms, as they inevitably trigger osmotically instigated fluxes of water across …

Universal taxonomic frameworks have been critical tools to structure the fields of botany,
zoology, mycology, and bacteriology as well as their large research communities. Animals, …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have led to a ubiquity of molecular sequence
data. This data avalanche is particularly challenging in metagenetics, which focuses on …

Actin polymerization-driven protrusion of the leading edge is a key element of cell motility.
The important actin nucleators formins and the Arp2/3 complex are believed to have …

Phylogenetic placement refers to a family of tools and methods to analyze, visualize, and
interpret the tsunami of metagenomic sequencing data generated by high-throughput …

Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species’ geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species’ genetic diversity. Although preserving genetic …

Rationale: Chronic hypoxia induces pulmonary vascular remodeling, pulmonary hypertension,
and right ventricular hypertrophy. At present, little is known about mechanisms driving …

Numerous studies covering some aspects of SARS-CoV-2 data analyses are being published
on a daily basis, including a regularly updated phylogeny on nextstrain.org. Here, we …

High animal and plant richness in tropical rainforest communities has long intrigued naturalists.
It is unknown if similar hyperdiversity patterns are reflected at the microbial scale with …

We present genesis, a library for working with phylogenetic data, and gappa, an accompanying
command-line tool for conducting typical analyses on such data. The tools target …