Global physiological analysis of carbon- and energy-limited growing Escherichia coli confirms a high degree of catabolic flexibility and preparedness for mixed substrate utilization.

abstract：:Insects and nematodes represent the most species-rich animal taxa and they occur together in a variety of associations. Necromenic nematodes of the genus Pristionchus are found on scarab beetles with more than 30 species known from worldwide samplings. However, little is known about the dynamics and succession of nema...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meyer JM,Baskaran P,Quast C,Susoy V,Rödelsperger C,Glöckner FO,Sommer RJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical lake sediments are a significant source for the greenhouse gas methane. We studied function (pathway, rate) and structure (abundance, taxonomic composition) of the microbial communities (Bacteria, Archaea) leading to methane formation together with the main physicochemical characteristics in the sediments of ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ji Y,Angel R,Klose M,Claus P,Marotta H,Pinho L,Enrich-Prast A,Conrad R

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drylands are the largest terrestrial biome on Earth and a ubiquitous feature is desert pavement terrain, comprising rocks embedded in the mineral soil surface. Quartz and other translucent rocks are common and microbial communities termed hypoliths develop as biofilms on their ventral surfaces. In extreme deserts thes...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Chan Y,Lacap DC,Lau MC,Ha KY,Warren-Rhodes KA,Cockell CS,Cowan DA,McKay CP,Pointing SB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) has been originally identified to catalyse the final step of the methanogenesis pathway. About 20 years ago anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (ANME) were discovered that use MCR enzymes to activate methane. ANME thrive at the thermodynamic limit of life, are slow-growing, and in mos...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Wegener G,Ruff SE,Wang F

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two genomes of widespread freshwater picocyanobacteria isolated by extinction dilution from a Spanish oligotrophic reservoir. Based on microscopy and genomic properties, both picocyanobacteria were tentatively designated Synechococcus lacustris Tous, formerly described as a metagenome assembled genome (MAG)...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cabello-Yeves PJ,Picazo A,Camacho A,Callieri C,Rosselli R,Roda-Garcia JJ,Coutinho FH,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen (H2 ) is enriched in hot springs and can support microbial primary production. Using a series of geochemical proxies, a model to describe variable H2 concentrations in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) hot springs is presented. Interaction between water and crustal iron minerals yields H2 that partition into th...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Lindsay MR,Colman DR,Amenabar MJ,Fristad KE,Fecteau KM,Debes RV 2nd,Spear JR,Shock EL,Hoehler TM,Boyd ES

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi can be highly efficient biogeochemical agents and accumulators of soluble and particulate forms of metals. This work aims to understand some of the physico-chemical mechanisms involved in toxic metal transformations focusing on the speciation of metals accumulated by fungi and mycorrhizal associations. The amorp...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fomina M,Charnock J,Bowen AD,Gadd GM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6 is a Gram-positive, 4-chlorophenol-degrading soil bacterium that was recently shown to be an effective colonizer of plant leaf surfaces. The genetic basis for this phyllosphere competency is unknown. In this paper, we describe the genome-wide expression profile of A.chlorophenolicus on...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Scheublin TR,Deusch S,Moreno-Forero SK,Müller JA,van der Meer JR,Leveau JH

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria play major roles in global biogeochemical cycles and oceanic nutrient fluxes. These interactions occur in the microenvironment surrounding phytoplankton cells, known as the phycosphere. Bacteria in the phycosphere use either chemotaxis or attachment to benefit from algal...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fei C,Ochsenkühn MA,Shibl AA,Isaac A,Wang C,Amin SA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Australia, saxitoxin production is strain dependent within the bloom-forming freshwater cyanobacterium Anabaena circinalis. Freshwater cyanobacteria are exposed to rapid fluctuations in environmental nutrient concentrations, and their adaption is vital for competition, succession and dominance. Two elements of envi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： D'Agostino PM,Song X,Neilan BA,Moffitt MC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stratified water column of the Black Sea produces a vertical succession of redox zones, stimulating microbial activity at the interfaces. Our study of intact polar membrane lipids (IPLs) in suspended particulate matter and sediments highlights their potential as biomarkers for assessing the taxonomic composition o...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schubotz F,Wakeham SG,Lipp JS,Fredricks HF,Hinrichs KU

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to global warming, increasing quantities of tDOM are transported through estuaries from land to the sea. In this study, we investigated microbial responses to increased tDOM concentrations in three salinity regimes (salinity: 32, 7 and 3) characteristic of the Baltic Sea. Mesocosm experiments performed in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Herlemann DPR,Manecki M,Dittmar T,Jürgens K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) of bacteria plays a key role in competing for specific niches by the contact-dependent killing of competitors. Recently, Rhs proteins with polymorphic C-terminal toxin-domains that inhibit or kill neighboring cells were identified. In this report, we identified a novel Rhs with an M...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ma J,Sun M,Dong W,Pan Z,Lu C,Yao H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syntrophomonas wolfei is a specialist, evolutionarily adapted for syntrophic growth with methanogens and other hydrogen- and/or formate-using microorganisms. This slow-growing anaerobe has three putative ribosome RNA operons, each of which has 16S rRNA and 23S rRNA genes of different length and multiple 5S rRNA genes....

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sieber JR,Sims DR,Han C,Kim E,Lykidis A,Lapidus AL,McDonnald E,Rohlin L,Culley DE,Gunsalus R,McInerney MJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents comparative geochemical, microbiological and molecular analyses of Greenland GISP2 ice core samples representing different depths, ages, deposition climates, in situ temperatures, and gas and ionic compositions. Our goal was to determine whether specific organisms, preserved at different depths, co...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Miteva V,Teacher C,Sowers T,Brenchley J

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Previous studies have shown that the rate of settlement of zoospores of the green alga Enteromorpha is stimulated by mixed microbial biofilms and that the number of zoospores settling is positively correlated with the number of bacteria in the biofilm. In the present study the specificity of this relationship has been...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Patel P,Callow ME,Joint I,Callow JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida mt-2 metabolizes m-xylene and other aromatic compounds through the enzymes encoded by the xyl operons of the TOL plasmid pWW0 along with other chromosomally encoded activities. Tiling arrays of densely overlapping oligonucleotides were designed to cover every gene involved in this process, allowing ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kim J,Pérez-Pantoja D,Silva-Rocha R,Oliveros JC,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloride channel proteins (ClC) are found in living systems where they transport chloride ions across cell membranes. Recently, the structure/function of two prokaryotic ClC has been determined but little is known about the role of these proteins in the microbial metabolism of chlorinated compounds. Here we show that ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sebastianelli A,Bruce IJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antarctic endolithic microecosystems harbour distinct biofilms. The lithic substrate and the microorganisms comprising these films are intimately linked, leading to complex mineral-microbe interactions. Hence, the microhabitats and microenvironments of these microecosystems are not only determined by the physicochemic...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： de los Ríos A,Wierzchos J,Sancho LG,Ascaso C

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Thin, vertically structured topsoil communities that become ecologically important in arid regions (biological soil crusts or BSCs) are responsible for much of the nitrogen inputs into pristine arid lands. We studied N(2) fixation and ammonium oxidation (AO) at subcentimetre resolution within BSCs from the Colorado Pl...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Johnson SL,Budinoff CR,Belnap J,Garcia-Pichel F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous sulphide-oxidizing Beggiatoa spp. often occur in large numbers in the coastal seabed without forming visible mats on the sediment surface. We studied the diversity, population structure and the nitrate-storing capability of such bacteria in the Danish Limfjorden and the German Wadden Sea. Their distributio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Mussmann M,Schulz HN,Strotmann B,Kjaer T,Nielsen LP,Rosselló-Mora RA,Amann RI,Jørgensen BB

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sub-seafloor sediments are populated by large numbers of microbial cells but not much is known about their metabolic activities, growth rates and carbon assimilation pathways. Here we introduce a new method enabling the sensitive detection of microbial lipid production and the distinction of auto- and heterotrophic ca...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wegener G,Bausch M,Holler T,Thang NM,Prieto Mollar X,Kellermann MY,Hinrichs KU,Boetius A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea ice microbial community structure affects carbon and nutrient cycling in polar seas, but its susceptibility to changing environmental conditions is not well understood. We studied the eukaryotic microbial community in sea ice cores recovered near Point Barrow, AK in May 2006 by documenting the composition of the c...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Eddie B,Juhl A,Krembs C,Baysinger C,Neuer S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic association is universal in nature, and an array of symbionts play a crucial part in host life history. Aphids and their diverse symbionts have become a good model system to study insect-symbiont interactions. Previous symbiotic diversity surveys have mainly focused on a few aphid clades, and the relative im...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Qin M,Chen J,Xu S,Jiang L,Qiao G

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine gamma-Proteobacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis is highly specialized in the assimilation of aliphatic hydrocarbons, and makes up a large part of the biomass in oil-polluted marine environments. In addition to the previously identified alkane hydroxylase AlkB1, a second alkane hydroxylase (AlkB2) showing 65% ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： van Beilen JB,Marín MM,Smits TH,Röthlisberger M,Franchini AG,Witholt B,Rojo F

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria are a heterologous group of motile prokaryotes, ubiquitous in aquatic habitats and cosmopolitan in distribution. Here, we studied the diversity of magnetotactic bacteria in a seawater pond within an intertidal zone at Huiquan Bay in the China Sea. The pond is composed of a permanently submerged ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Pan H,Zhu K,Song T,Yu-Zhang K,Lefèvre C,Xing S,Liu M,Zhao S,Xiao T,Wu LF

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioactive amounts of antibiotics as well as resistant bacteria reach the soil through manure fertilization. We investigated plasmids that may stimulate the environmental spread and interspecies transfer of antibiotic resistance. After treatment of two soils with manure, either with or without the sulfonamide antibioti...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Heuer H,Kopmann C,Binh CT,Top EM,Smalla K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00