Explore & Discover Scientific Journals

Evolution is the unifying concept than runs through the life sciences, from the origin and diversification of life to understanding behaviour to dealing with disease. Ecology takes biology from the relative simplicity of individuals to the complexity of interactions between organisms and their environments. Its implications stretch beyond biology into environmental science and the grand challenges facing society.

The ISME Journal encompasses the breadth of microbial ecology and topics of particular concentration include, but are not limited to the integration of genomics and post-genomics approaches into studies of microbial activities, interactions and phylogeny; interactions among microorganisms and between microbes and their eukaryotic hosts, including plant, animal and human diseases and symbioses; understanding of biotic/abiotic interactions in situ and microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles; integrated advances in environmental biotechnology; impacts of global change on microbial communities and processes; theoretical advances in microbial population and community ecology.