Norman R. Pace

A Molecular View of Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere

Over three decades of molecular-phylogenetic studies, researchers have compiled an increasingly robust map of evolutionary diversification showing that the main diversity of lif...

Phylogenetic stratigraphy in the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat

Abstract The microbial mats of Guerrero Negro (GN), Baja California Sur, Mexico historically were considered a simple environment, dominated by cyanobacteria and sulfate-reducin...

Millimeter‐scale genetic gradients and community‐level molecular convergence in a hypersaline microbial mat

To investigate the extent of genetic stratification in structured microbial communities, we compared the metagenomes of 10 successive layers of a phylogenetically complex hypers...

The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010.

This report details the outcome the first meeting of the Earth Microbiome Project to discuss sample selection and acquisition. The meeting, held at the Argonne National Laborato...

The largest bacterium

Molecular-phylogenetic characterization of microbial community imbalances in human inflammatory bowel diseases

The two primary human inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are idiopathic relapsing disorders characterized by chronic inflammation of ...