Metagenomics articles from across Nature Portfolio

In this work, authors assess airway microbiome dynamics to show bacterial pneumonia in critically ill COVID-19 patients is significantly associated with death, corticosteroid treatment, disruption of the lung microbiome and a distinct pulmonary host response.

The study reveals that the Southern Ocean hosts a unique and largely underexplored DNA viral community. It explores the diversity of viral communities infecting all domains of life and their seasonality, emphasizing their role in ecosystem dynamics.

A metagenomic CRISPR screening approach identifies an expansive diversity of viruses and mobile genetic elements infecting the enigmatic ultrasmall DPANN archaea.

Being first in a family to aim for a science career takes resilience and resourcefulness.

Although gut microorganisms have been associated with type 2 diabetes, the mechanisms involving specific microbial strains remain unidentified. Now, a comprehensive study has analyzed 8,117 shotgun metagenomes from the USA, Europe, Israel and China, providing cross-population microbial signatures in a strain-resolved manner and new mechanistic insights into type 2 diabetes.

Multidisciplinary culture-dependent and -independent techniques elucidate the unique microbial nitrogen cycle in nutrient-poor coastal Antarctica soils and reveal the contribution of novel key microbes to their nitrogen budget.

Metatranscriptomic data from more than 2,000 mosquitoes of 81 species show that the composition of mosquito viral communities is determined more by host phylogeny than by climate and land-use factors, which will help to inform arbovirus surveillance.