Mozzarella cheese is perhaps the most popular non-ripened cheese in the world. Traditional mozzarella is mainly produced in Italy although it is widely exported and also industrially produced in other countries. Water ...

The complexity of interactions among microorganisms and of microorganisms with their environment and with other organisms is becoming increasingly understood by microbial ecology researchers, helped by the development of ...

The Atacama Desert is one of the oldest and driest places on Earth. In the last decade, microbial richness and diversity has been acknowledged as an important biological resource of this region. Owing to the value of the ...

Metagenomics and other "omics" are among the fastest advancing scientific tools, underpinning the recent and unprecedented access to genetic and functional information of entire communities of bacteria, virus and fungi. ...