The digestive microbiota of humans and of a wide range of animals has recently become amenable to in-depth studies due to the emergence of DNA-based metagenomic techniques that do not require cultivation of gut microbes. These techniques are now commonly used to explore the feces of humans and animals under the assumption that such samples are faithful proxies for the intestinal microbiota. She...

Filamentous fungi are microorganisms with a great capacity of produce and export enzymes to the extracellular media. These enzymes have been studied from different point of views and many properties have been attributed, some of them with biotechnological applications. A traditional way of studying these enzymes has been through purification, characterization and sequencing of individual enzyme...