Editorial: Microbial Responses to Environmental Changes

Editorial: Microbial Responses to Environmental Changes

Earth is teeming with taxonomically, phylogenetically, and metabolically highly diverse microorganisms ; organisms that are crucial for sustaining life on our planet in that they carry out processes of great biogeochemical significance. The processes and mechanisms underlying their diversity and distribution are, thus, of great interest, yet—despite their importance—only poorly understood. Micr...

Editorial: Plants' Responses to Novel Environmental Pressures

Responses to climatic and environmental changes

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Editorial: Microbial and Environmental Factors in Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

Pathogenesis of many autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases is largely driven by inappropriate or inadequate immune responses toward environmental challenges. Most of them are multifactorial. For example, assessment of disease risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) brings the share of genetic predisposition to 50–60%, with the rest attributed to environmental factors (1). Thus, the disease...

Changes to Editorial Team

I would like to thank Yumiko Saga, who is leaving the team of handling Editors of Mechanisms of Development, and its sister journal, Gene Expression Patterns, for all her excellent work for the journals. I am delighted to announce that two new handling Editors have joined the team, who further broaden its expertise: Mary Dickinson and Fumio Matsuzaki. Mary is at the Department of Molecular Phys...