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Aug 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tiago Pereira |Alejandro De Santiago |Holly Bik

1 INTRODUCTION Soils are extremely diverse habitats, harbouring ~59% of the species on Earth (Anthony et al., 2023). Many taxa, including archaea, bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists and other microeukaryotes such as nematodes, are highly diverse and abundant in these systems (Guerra et al., 2021; van den Hoogen et al., 2019). In fact, below-ground biomass equals or potentially exceeds that above-ground, highlighting the importance of small organisms living within the soil (FAO et al., 2020).

Nov 28, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Nicholas M Fountain-Jones |Tatiana Giraud |Lucie Zinger |Holly Bik

1 INTRODUCTION The study of microbial communities across host species and environments (hereafter the ‘microbiome’) is a major focus of research in the field of molecular ecology. As such, Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources regularly publish papers and special issues in the field.