Damaris Desgarennes

TL;DR: The first comprehensive investigation of the microbial communities associated with species of Agave, which are native to semiarid and arid regions of Central and North America and are emerging as biofuel feedstocks, suggests common principles underpinning Agave–microbe interactions.

TL;DR: In Agave, the structure of prokaryotic assemblages was mostly influenced by the community group, where the soil, episphere, and endosphere were clearly distinct, and Proteobacteria (γ and α), Actinobacteria, and Acidobacteria were the dominant phyla.

TL;DR: Analysis of the functional signatures of the prokaryotic communities of the soil and the episphere associated with the cultivated Agave tequilana and the native and sympatric Agave salmiana, Opuntia robusta and Myrtillocactus geometrizans sheds light on the potential mechanisms by which epiphytic microbial communities survive and colonize plants of arid and semiarid ecosystems.

TL;DR: The diversity and composition of the gut-microbiota during the life cycle of the dung beetle Copris incertus is described and the influence of the maternal microbiota in the composition and diversity of the Gut microbiota of the offspring is suggested.

TL;DR: In this paper, root rot increased the proportion of Pseudomonadales and Burkholderiales in the rhizosphere but reduced that of Actinobacteria, Bacillus spp. and Rhizobiales.