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Publishing the latest research in microbial ecology, spanning the breadth of microbial life including bacteria, archaea, microbial eukaryotes, and viruses.

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Pesticide exposure and the microbiota-gut-brain axis

Rie Matsuzaki
Eoin Gunnigle
John F. Cryan
Review ArticleOpen Access16 Jun 2023
Antimony efflux underpins phosphorus cycling and resistance of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in mining soils

Shengwei Liu
Jiaxiong Zeng
Qingyun Yan
ArticleOpen Access03 Jun 2023
High speciation rate of niche specialists in hot springs

Qing He
Shang Wang
Ye Deng
ArticleOpen Access07 Jun 2023

Current issue

Microbial volatiles mediate bacterial evolutionary dynamics

Muhammad Syamsu Rizaludin
Paolina Garbeva
Jie Hu
CommentOpen Access17 Oct 2023
Transitivity and intransitivity in soil bacterial networks

Miguel Verdú
Julio M. Alcántara
Marta Goberna
Perspective19 Oct 2023
Relationships between intrinsic population growth rate, carrying capacity and metabolism in microbial populations

Dustin J. Marshall
Hayley E. Cameron
Michel Loreau
PerspectiveOpen Access27 Oct 2023
Progress and challenges in exploring aquatic microbial communities using non-targeted metabolomics

Monica Thukral
Andrew E. Allen
Daniel Petras
Review ArticleOpen Access19 Oct 2023
Microbial controls over soil priming effects under chronic nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forests

Jian Li
Zhan-Feng Liu
Yong-Guan Zhu
Article29 Sept 2023
Nitrogen transfer and cross-feeding between Azotobacter chroococcum and Paracoccus aminovorans promotes pyrene degradation

Xia Wang
Ying Teng
Yongming Luo
ArticleOpen Access29 Sept 2023

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The ISME Journal 2022 Best Paper Award

Each year the Editors in Chief recognize a selection of articles for their outstanding quality and impact. We hope you enjoy reading the articles that received the highest accolade in this collection.
The ISME Journal 2022 Outstanding Board Member Awards

The Editors-in-Chief wish to extend their congratulations to the following top three outstanding Editorial Board members, for their consistent hard work in offering a high number of quality reviews in a timely manner in 2022:
Trinity Hamilton

David Johnson

Mamoru Oshiki
Each receives an Open Access waiver for their next article and a one-year membership to ISME.
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Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions

Patricia Sanches
Consuelo M. De Moraes
Mark C. Mescher
ArticleOpen Access18 Nov 2023
Ginsenoside Rg3 enriches SCFA-producing commensal bacteria to confer protection against enteric viral infection via the cGAS-STING-type I IFN axis

Gan Wang
Jingtianyi Liu
Shu Jeffrey Zhu
ArticleOpen Access10 Nov 2023
Widespread and largely unknown prophage activity, diversity, and function in two genera of wheat phyllosphere bacteria

Peter Erdmann Dougherty
Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen
Lars Hestbjerg Hansen
ArticleOpen Access02 Nov 2023
Filamentous virus-like particles are present in coral dinoflagellates across genera and ocean basins

Lauren I. Howe-Kerr
Anna M. Knochel
Adrienne M. S. Correa
ArticleOpen Access01 Nov 2023
Coordinated proteome change precedes cell lysis and death in a mat-forming cyanobacterium

Jackie Zorz
Alexandre J. Paquette
Agasteswar Vadlamani
ArticleOpen Access01 Nov 2023
Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species

Tagide deCarvalho
Elia Mascolo
Ivan Erill
ArticleOpen Access31 Oct 2023
Relationships between intrinsic population growth rate, carrying capacity and metabolism in microbial populations

Dustin J. Marshall
Hayley E. Cameron
Michel Loreau
PerspectiveOpen Access27 Oct 2023
Strain-level diversity of symbiont communities between individuals and populations of a bioluminescent fish

A. L. Gould
S. A. Donohoo
E. E. Neff
ArticleOpen Access27 Oct 2023
Amino acid auxotrophies in human gut bacteria are linked to higher microbiome diversity and long-term stability

Svenja Starke
Danielle M. M. Harris
Silvio Waschina
ArticleOpen Access27 Oct 2023

Welcome to The ISME Journal

Featured

Pesticide exposure and the microbiota-gut-brain axis

Antimony efflux underpins phosphorus cycling and resistance of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in mining soils

High speciation rate of niche specialists in hot springs

Current issue

Microbial volatiles mediate bacterial evolutionary dynamics

Transitivity and intransitivity in soil bacterial networks

Relationships between intrinsic population growth rate, carrying capacity and metabolism in microbial populations

Progress and challenges in exploring aquatic microbial communities using non-targeted metabolomics

Microbial controls over soil priming effects under chronic nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forests

Nitrogen transfer and cross-feeding between Azotobacter chroococcum and Paracoccus aminovorans promotes pyrene degradation

Announcements

Journal News

The ISME Journal 2022 Best Paper Award

The ISME Journal 2022 Outstanding Board Member Awards

Follow us on Twitter!

Browse articles

Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions

Ginsenoside Rg3 enriches SCFA-producing commensal bacteria to confer protection against enteric viral infection via the cGAS-STING-type I IFN axis

Widespread and largely unknown prophage activity, diversity, and function in two genera of wheat phyllosphere bacteria

Filamentous virus-like particles are present in coral dinoflagellates across genera and ocean basins

Coordinated proteome change precedes cell lysis and death in a mat-forming cyanobacterium

Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species

Relationships between intrinsic population growth rate, carrying capacity and metabolism in microbial populations

Strain-level diversity of symbiont communities between individuals and populations of a bioluminescent fish

Amino acid auxotrophies in human gut bacteria are linked to higher microbiome diversity and long-term stability

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Geometagenomics illuminates the impact of agriculture on the distribution and prevalence of plant viruses at the ecosystem scale

Deciphering the bat virome catalog to better understand the ecological diversity of bat viruses and the bat origin of emerging infectious diseases

Massive genome reduction predates the divergence of Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates

Ecological relevance of flagellar motility in soil bacterial communities

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