Editorial: Signals to sociality: how microbial communication fashions communities

Editorial: Systems Biology and Ecology of Microbial Mat Communities

1 Department of Biology, Queens College of The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA, 2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, 3 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, 4 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 5 Department of Land Resources and Enviro...

Editorial: The Role of Microbial Communities in Tropical Ecosystems

Microorganisms represent the largest proportion of the Earth's biodiversity and play an essential role in ecosystem processes, providing functions that ultimately sustain all of life (Falkowski et al., 2008; Prosser, 2012). Understanding the link between ecosystem functioning and the distribution of microbial diversity is essential to predict ecosystem responses to a changing environment (de Vr...

Editorial: Roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities

Citation: Sime-Ngando T, Lafferty KD and Biron DG (2015) Editorial: Roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities. Our research topic on the roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities should be of broad interest, given that there are probably more parasitic species than free-living ones (Windsor, 1998), a hypothesis increasingly supported by next g...

Part I Communication: from sociality to society

Editorial Signals

Silent cerebral lesions (SCLs) are the newest complication to be described.3–5 In this issue of Circulation Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology, Rillig et al6 report their findings from their study of 70 patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation. They compared manual ablation with robotic intervention and found no difference in SCL between the groups (18% robot-assisted pulmonary vein isolati...