Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01299-7In this Review, Vasse and Velicer explore the phylogenetic and functional diversity of predators of microorganisms, conceptualizing the forms of microbial predation along gradients, including gradients of evolutionary adaptedness for predation and privatization of prey-derived nutrients.

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Comammox Nitrospira adapt to oxygen availability informing strategies for low oxygen nitrification

Nitrification is a key process in wastewater treatment and a major driver of energy consumption due to high aeration demands. The discovery of complet…

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Evolutionary trajectory of microbial sulfur oxidation pathways recapitulates Earth’s oxygenation history - Nature Communications

Microorganisms have long driven Earth’s oxidative sulfuric cycle using complex sulfur-oxidizing systems. This study shows that this molecular machinery first originated in the anoxic Archean eon and g...

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Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern

Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. An...

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The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators

Across three global Escherichia coli regulators, identical starting sequences can evolve toward many distinct strong-binding peaks, with chance, historical contingency, and evolutionary bias shaping w...

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Oxygen production via nitric oxide dismutation in diverse ammonia oxidizers

Abstract. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are widespread and highly abundant in nature. Despite their typical aerobic metabolism, they thrive in ecosystems

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Abstract. Reactive nitrogen fate in natural systems remains difficult to predict because pathway partitioning occurs at the stage of nitrite turnover, where rapid and tightly coupled production and co...

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A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communities

Microbial communities play vital roles in diverse ecosystems and are key drivers of numerous industrial or health-related applications. In many cases,…

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A microbiologist’s field guide to community ecology

Abstract. Many microbiological outcomes are shaped by the determinants of community composition, including the factors that allow pathogens to invade healt

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All biology is computational biology

Here, I argue that computational thinking and techniques are so central to the quest of understanding life that today all biology is computational biology. Computational biology brings order into our ...

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Spatial and genetic constraints govern transcription–translation coupling and mRNA degradation in bacteria - Nature Microbiology

RNase E localization and translation initiation coordinate transcription, translation and mRNA degradation during the life cycle of an mRNA, explaining gene- and species-specific variations in this co...

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Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration - Nature Communications

In this study, the authors show that cable bacteria perform extracellular electron transfer via direct and flavin-mediated pathways, which enables growth under anoxic conditions at rates comparable to...

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Biological use of molybdenum and tungsten stems back to 3.4 billion years ago - Nature Communications

The study shows that life began using molybdenum and tungsten enzymes as early as 3.7–3.1 billion years ago. Study reveals that key metabolic processes arose despite scarce metals and highlighting the early adaptability of microbial life.

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Drivers of complexity in ecosystem restoration

This study shows that ecological complexity is empirically measurable, and its development in restoration can be influenced by key variables, which have mechanistic underpinnings. The foundational ro...

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Genome-wide sweeps create ecological units in the human gut microbiome - Nature

Genome-wide selective sweeps commonly occur in the human gut microbiome and can spread across the world within decades to produce epidemic-like population structures.

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Various C₁–C₂ compounds are increasingly available through electrochemical reduction of CO2. Although not always suitable as a sole substrate, these compounds can supplement a primary substrate like ....

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