Michaela Nelson

TL;DR: One of the most comprehensive investigations of community-level processes acting on soil microbes is revealed, revealing a community that although influenced by stochastic processes, still responded in a predictable manner to a major abiotic niche axis, soil pH.

TL;DR: A seasonally changing supply of host-plant carbon, reflecting changes in temperature and sunshine hours, may be the driving force in regulating the temporal dynamics of AM fungal communities.

TL;DR: The first molecular phylogeny of the Dictyostelia is constructed with parallel small subunit ribosomal RNA and a-tubulin data sets, and it is found that dictyostelid taxonomy requires complete revision.

TL;DR: Four genes from a broad sampling of the morphological diversity of choanoflagellates including most species currently available in culture are sequenced, rejecting much of the traditional taxonomy of the group.

TL;DR: E ecological models derived from studies on larger organisms to microbial communities highlight that, to a first approximation, microbial communities follow similar processes and have similar patterns to those of macroorganisms, but also the need for large-scale microbial data sets, if to understand the patterns and processes regulating global biodiversity.