Special Issue

Topic: Diversity, Genetics and Evolution of Microbial Communities
A Special Issue of Microbiome Research Reports
ISSN 2771-5965 (Online)
Submission deadline: 30 Sep 2023
Guest Editor(s)
Dr. Francesca Bottacini
Department of Biological Sciences, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.
Special Issue Introduction
High-throughput sequencing and integrative multi-omics approaches have contributed to advancing our knowledge of the diversity and assembly of microbial communities, their evolution, and the mechanism of interaction with host and ecosystem. Strategies such as metabolic competition, cooperation, and syntrophic relationships play a vital role in establishing interactions between multi-species ecological networks, and also shaping the composition and functionality of the whole community. Microorganisms acquire and lose genes quite dynamically, and this constant flow of genetic material represents an important source of genetic variation and evolution. The interaction between bacteria, phages, plasmids, and mobile genetic elements influences fitness, survival, cooperation, and symbiosis between microbes, with genetic variations being responsible for novel emerging functions. Combined genomic and functional approaches have been revealed to be instrumental in elucidating relationships between genomic and phenotypic diversity, and mechanistic insights into their effect at a community and sub-community level remain an area deserving of further exploration. This Special Issue aims to gather the latest advances in the application of genomic and functional investigations in the study and characterization of microbial communities, the diversity of their members, and their cross-interactions. Researchers are invited to submit research or review articles showing the application of computational predictive methods and functional genomics for the study of bacterial and virome communities, their interplay, evolution, and characterization of new molecular pathways.
Submission Deadline
30 Sep 2023
Submission Information
Ten articles in the Special Issue are exempt from article processing charges.
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Submission Deadline: 30 Sep 2023
Contacts: Fiona Chen, Assistant Editor, editorialoffice@mrrjournal.net
Published Articles
Open Access Original Article
Profiling of the intestinal community of Clostridia: taxonomy and evolutionary analysis
This article belongs to the Special Issue Diversity, Genetics and Evolution of Microbial Communities
Microbiome Res Rep 2023;2:13.
DOI: 10.20517/mrr.2022.19
Available online: 19 Apr 2023