Free Shiga toxin bacteriophages isolated from sewage showed diversity although the stx genes appeared conserved.

abstract：:Using DNA obtained from the metagenome of an anaerobic digestor in a waste water treatment plant, we constructed a gene library cloned in the wide host-range cosmid pLAFR3. One cosmid enabled Rhizobium leguminosarum to grow on ethanol as sole carbon and energy source, this being due to the presence of a gene, termed a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wexler M,Bond PL,Richardson DJ,Johnston AW

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared bacterial biofilm and planktonic cell susceptibility to metal toxicity by evaluating the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), the planktonic minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC), and minimum biofilm eradication concentration (MBEC) using the MBEC device. In total, 17 metal cations and oxyani...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Harrison JJ,Ceri H,Stremick CA,Turner RJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cellulose-fermenting methanogenic enrichment cultures originating from rice soil, one at 15 degrees C with Methanosaeta and the other at 30 degrees C with Methanosarcina as the dominant acetoclastic methanogen, both degraded cellulose anaerobically via propionate, acetate and H2 to CH4. The degradation was a two-s...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wu XL,Conrad R

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a future scenario of increasing temperatures in North-Atlantic waters, the risk associated with the expansion of the harmful, benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. siamensis has to be evaluated and monitored. Microscopy observations and spatio-temporal surveys of environmental DNA (eDNA) were associated with Lagran...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Drouet K,Jauzein C,Herviot-Heath D,Hariri S,Laza-Martinez A,Lecadet C,Plus M,Seoane S,Sourisseau M,Lemée R,Siano R

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical aquatic legumes of the genus Aeschynomene are unique in that they can be stem-nodulated by photosynthetic bradyrhizobia. Moreover, a recent study demonstrated that two Aeschynomene indica symbionts lack canonical nod genes, thereby raising questions about the distribution of such atypical symbioses among rhiz...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Miché L,Moulin L,Chaintreuil C,Contreras-Jimenez JL,Munive-Hernández JA,Del Carmen Villegas-Hernandez M,Crozier F,Béna G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron(III) profiles of flooded paddy soil incubated in the greenhouse indicated oxidation of iron(II) in the upper 6 mm soil layer. Measurement of oxygen with a Clark-type microelectrode showed that oxygen was only responsible for the oxidation of iron(II) in the upper 3 mm. In the soil beneath, nitrate could be used a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ratering S,Schnell S

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum sensing, a group behaviour coordinated by a diffusible pheromone signal and a cognate receptor, is typical of bacteria that form symbioses with plants and animals. LuxIR-type N-acyl L-homoserine (AHL) quorum sensing is common in Gram-negative Proteobacteria, and many members of this group have additional quorum...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Studer SV,Schwartzman JA,Ho JS,Geske GD,Blackwell HE,Ruby EG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the importance of the Gram-negative bacterium Stenotrophomonas as an opportunistic pathogen as well as in biotechnology has increased. The aim of the present study was to develop new methods for distinguishing between strains closely related to the potentially human pathogenic Stenotrophomonas maltoph...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ribbeck-Busch K,Roder A,Hasse D,de Boer W,Martínez JL,Hagemann M,Berg G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are important primary producers in many marine ecosystems and their abundances and growth rates depend on their ability to assimilate various nitrogen sources. To examine the diversity of nitrate-utilizing marine cyanobacteria, we developed PCR primers specific for cyanobacterial assimilatory nitrate red...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Jenkins BD,Zehr JP,Gibson A,Campbell L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic modules usually consisting of two elements-a toxin and an antitoxin. The abundance of TA systems among various bacterial strains may indicate an important evolutionary role. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can be found in a variety of niches in nature, is an opportunistic p...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zander I,Shmidov E,Roth S,Ben-David Y,Shoval I,Shoshani S,Danielli A,Banin E

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi can improve iron (Fe) acquisition of their host plants. Here, we report a characterization of two components of the high-affinity reductive Fe uptake system of Rhizophagus irregularis, the ferric reductase (RiFRE1) and the high affinity Fe permeases (RiFTR1-2). In the extraradical myc...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tamayo E,Knight SAB,Valderas A,Dancis A,Ferrol N

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An organism's metabolic activity leaves an extracellular footprint and dynamic changes in this exometabolome inform about nutrient uptake, waste disposal and signalling activities. Using non-targeted mass spectrometry, we report exometabolome dynamics of hypoxia-induced, non-replicating mycobacteria that are thought t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zimmermann M,Kuehne A,Boshoff HI,Barry CE 3rd,Zamboni N,Sauer U

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic (As) is the most common toxic element in the environment, ranking first on the Superfund List of Hazardous Substances. Microbial redox transformations are the principal drivers of As chemical speciation, which in turn dictates As mobility and toxicity. Consequently, in order to manage or remediate environmenta...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Liu G,Liu M,Kim EH,Maaty WS,Bothner B,Lei B,Rensing C,Wang G,McDermott TR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technologies for massively parallel sequencing are revolutionizing microbial ecology and are vastly increasing the scale of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene studies. Although pyrosequencing has increased the breadth and depth of possible rRNA gene sampling, one drawback is that the number of reads obtained per sample is diff...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gihring TM,Green SJ,Schadt CW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive microbial growth typically observed in laboratory rarely occurs in nature. Because of severe nutrient deficiency, natural populations exhibit near-zero growth (NZG). There is a long-standing controversy about sustained NZG, specifically whether there is a minimum growth rate below which cells die or whether ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Panikov NS,Mandalakis M,Dai S,Mulcahy LR,Fowle W,Garrett WS,Karger BL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until now anaerobic oxidation of VFA at high salt-pH has been demonstrated only at sulfate-reducing conditions. Here, we present results of a microbiological investigation of anaerobic conversion of organic acids and alcohols at methanogenic conditions by syntrophic associations enriched from hypersaline soda lakes in...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sorokin DY,Abbas B,Geleijnse M,Kolganova TV,Kleerebezem R,van Loosdrecht MC

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although common knowledge dictates that the lichen thallus is formed solely by a fungus (mycobiont) that develops a symbiotic relationship with an alga and/or cyanobacterium (photobiont), the non-photoautotrophic bacteria found in lichen microbiomes are increasingly regarded as integral components of lichen thalli. Fo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hodkinson BP,Gottel NR,Schadt CW,Lutzoni F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of respiratory quinone electron carriers among cultivated organisms provides clues on both the taxonomy of their producers and the redox processes these are mediating. Our study of the quinone inventories of 25 archaeal species belonging to the phyla Eury-, Cren- and Thaumarchaeota facilitates their u...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Elling FJ,Becker KW,Könneke M,Schröder JM,Kellermann MY,Thomm M,Hinrichs KU

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms that thrive in acidic environments are endowed with specialized molecular mechanisms to survive under this extremely harsh condition. In this work, we performed functional screening of six metagenomic libraries from planktonic and rhizosphere microbial communities of the Tinto River, an extremely acidic...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Guazzaroni ME,Morgante V,Mirete S,González-Pastor JE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During adaptation to environments, bacteria employ two-component signal transduction systems, which contain histidine kinases and response regulators, to sense and respond to exogenous and cellular stimuli in an accurate spatio-temporal manner. Although the protein phosphorylation process between histidine kinase and ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang FF,Deng CY,Cai Z,Wang T,Wang L,Wang XZ,Chen XY,Fang RX,Qian W

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies on the species composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have solely analysed mycorrhizal roots or AM spores collected from soil samples. However, the spore production rate and proportions of AMF mycelium in roots and soils have all been shown to vary substantially in a taxon-specific manner. Ther...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hempel S,Renker C,Buscot F

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root endophytic fungi are found in a great variety of plants and ecosystems, but the ecological drivers of their biogeographic distribution are poorly understood. Here, we investigate the occurrence of root endophytes in the non-mycorrhizal plant genus Microthlaspi, and the effect of environmental factors and geograph...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Glynou K,Ali T,Buch AK,Haghi Kia S,Ploch S,Xia X,Çelik A,Thines M,Maciá-Vicente JG

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halogenated organic compounds, also termed organohalogens, were initially considered to be of almost exclusively anthropogenic origin. However, over 5000 naturally synthesized organohalogens are known today. This has also fuelled the hypothesis that the natural and ancient origin of organohalogens could have primed de...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Atashgahi S,Häggblom MM,Smidt H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The well-known role of antibiotics in killing sensitive organisms has been challenged by the effects they exert at subinhibitory concentrations. Unfortunately, there are very few published reports on the advantages these molecules may confer to their producers. This study describes the construction of a genetically ve...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Prajapati D,Kumari N,Dave K,Chatupale V,Pohnerkar J

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A macroarray system was developed to screen environmental samples for the presence of specific tetracycline (Tc(R)) and erythromycin (erm(R)) resistance genes. The macroarray was loaded with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicons of 23 Tc(R) genes and 10 erm(R) genes. Total bacterial genomic DNA was extracted from ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Patterson AJ,Colangeli R,Spigaglia P,Scott KP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the dynamics of microbial community assembly driven by environmental perturbations have been extensively studied, our understanding is far from complete, particularly for light-induced perturbations. Extremely halophilic communities thriving in coastal solar salterns are mainly influenced by two environmental fa...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Viver T,Orellana LH,Díaz S,Urdiain M,Ramos-Barbero MD,González-Pastor JE,Oren A,Hatt JK,Amann R,Antón J,Konstantinidis KT,Rosselló-Móra R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis have been described as members of the Bacillus cereus group but are, in fact, one species. B. anthracis is a mammal pathogen, B. thuringiensis an entomopathogen and B. cereus a ubiquitous soil bacterium and an occasional human pathogen. In two clinical iso...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Mignot T,Denis B,Couture-Tosi E,Kolstø AB,Mock M,Fouet A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the putative role of phenazines and rhamnolipid-biosurfactants, antagonistic metabolites produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PNA1, was tested in the biological control of Pythium splendens on bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) and Pythium myriotylum on cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium L Schott). A rhamnolipid-...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Perneel M,D'hondt L,De Maeyer K,Adiobo A,Rabaey K,Höfte M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The depth distribution and diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) was analysed in the upper intertidal zone of a sandy marine sediment of the Dutch island Schiermonnikoog. The upper centimetre of the sediment included the oxic-anoxic interface and was cut into five slices. With each slice, most probable number ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wieringa EB,Overmann J,Cypionka H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition affects myriad aspects of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function, and microbial communities may be particularly sensitive to anthropogenic N inputs. However, our understanding of N deposition effects on microbial communities is far from complete, especially for drylands where data are com...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： McHugh TA,Morrissey EM,Mueller RC,Gallegos-Graves V,Kuske CR,Reed SC

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00