DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

From a biological perspective, it is important for scientists and the general public to understand that organisms do interact with their environment; in this sense, it often incorporates the terms ...

Understanding the microbial ecology of a system requires that the observed population dynamics can be linked to their metabolic functions. However, functional characterization is laborious and the ...

The fact that genetic traits in one species can affect an entire ecosystem has important basic and applied implications that are only now being appreciated. The potential sphere of gene influence can ...