Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group within the SSC

This editorial was co-published simultaneously across multiple international microbiology journals. The versions are substantively identical (with minor style differences), and readers may choose the version most relevant to their field or journal community.

Read the article (DOI links):

• FEMS Microbiology Ecology: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaf107

• The ISME Journal: https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf239

• mSystems (ASM): https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01505-25

• Sustainable Microbiology (AMI / OUP): https://doi.org/10.1093/sumbio/qvaf024