The galactophilic lectin, LecA, contributes to biofilm development in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

abstract：:The contribution of Chloroflexi-type SAR202 cells to total picoplankton and bacterial abundance and uptake of D- and L-aspartic acids (Asp) was determined in the different meso- and bathypelagic water masses of the (sub)tropical Atlantic (from 35 degrees N to 5 degrees S). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) rev...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Varela MM,van Aken HM,Herndl GJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrios belonging to the Harveyi clade are pathogenic marine bacteria affecting both vertebrates and invertebrates, thereby causing a severe threat to the aquaculture industry. In this study, the expression of haemolysin, metalloprotease, serine protease, the quorum sensing master regulator LuxR and the virulence regu...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ruwandeepika HA,Defoirdt T,Bhowmick PP,Karunasagar I,Karunasagar I,Bossier P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chytrids are ubiquitous fungal parasites in aquatic ecosystems, infecting representatives of all major phytoplankton groups. They repack carbon from inedible phytoplankton hosts into easily ingested chytrid propagules (zoospores), rendering this carbon accessible to zooplankton. Grazing on zoospores may circumvent bot...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gerphagnon M,Agha R,Martin-Creuzburg D,Bec A,Perriere F,Rad-Menéndez C,Gachon CMM,Wolinska J

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria were the first organisms ever to perform oxygenic photosynthesis and still significantly contribute to primary production on a global scale. To assure the proper functioning of their primary metabolism and cell homeostasis, cyanobacteria must rely on efficient transport systems to cross their multilayere...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gonçalves CF,Pacheco CC,Tamagnini P,Oliveira P

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:Nosema ceranae is currently one of the major pathogens of honeybees, related to the worldwide colony losses phenomenon. The genotyping of strains based on ribosomal DNA (rDNA) can be misleading if the repeated units are not identical. The analysis of cloned rDNA fragments containing the intergenic spacer (IGS) and par...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sagastume S,Del Águila C,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M,Henriques-Gil N

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Members of the phylum Acidobacteria are abundant and ubiquitous across soils. We performed a large-scale comparative genome analysis spanning subdivisions 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 23 (n = 24) with the goal to identify features to help explain their prevalence in soils and understand their ecophysiology. Our analysis revealed...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Eichorst SA,Trojan D,Roux S,Herbold C,Rattei T,Woebken D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthesis versus irradiance curves and their associated photosynthetic parameters from different phototrophic biofilms isolated from an extreme acidic environment (Río Tinto, SW, Spain) were studied in order to relate them to their species composition and the physicochemical characteristics of their respective sa...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Souza-Egipsy V,Altamirano M,Amils R,Aguilera A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meromictic lake ecosystem (Mahoney Lake, BC, Canada) was investigated to elucidate the significance of chemocline bacteria in the total carbon cycle under natural conditions. In this lake, primary production by oxygenic phototrophs was insufficient to support the observed net secondary production of the calanoid cop...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Overmann J,Hall KJ,Northcote TG,Beatty JT

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine sponges often harbour communities of symbiotic microorganisms that fulfil necessary functions for the well-being of their hosts. Microbial communities associated with the sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile were used as bioindicators for sublethal cupric ion (Cu2+) stress. A combined strategy incorporating molecular,...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Webster NS,Webb RI,Ridd MJ,Hill RT,Negri AP

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages carrying the stx2 gene were detected in a range of sewage samples using a plaque hybridization-based method. After detection, phages were isolated and propagated with a laboratory strain of Escherichia coli as host for characterization purposes. Although it was not possible to conduct propagation or transductio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Muniesa M,Serra-Moreno R,Jofre J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continent-scale biogeography has been extensively studied in soils and marine systems, but little is known about biogeographical patterns in non-marine sediments. We used barcode pyrosequencing to quantify the effects of local geochemical properties and geographic distance for bacterial community structure and members...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Xiong J,Liu Y,Lin X,Zhang H,Zeng J,Hou J,Yang Y,Yao T,Knight R,Chu H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi have been observed to exhibit resistance to high levels of ionizing radiation despite sharing most DNA repair mechanisms with other eukaryotes. Radioresistance, in fact, is such a common feature in fungi that it is difficult to identify species that exhibit widely different radiosensitivities, which in turn has ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Romsdahl J,Schultzhaus Z,Chen A,Liu J,Ewing A,Hervey J,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The advances in synthetic biology bring exciting new opportunities to reprogram microorganisms with novel functionalities for environmental applications. For real-world applications, a genetic tool that enables genetic engineering in a stably genomic inherited manner is greatly desired. In this work, we design a novel...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fan YY,Tang Q,Li Y,Li FH,Wu JH,Li WW,Yu HQ

更新日期：2020-12-28 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：:Chemolithoautotrophic nitrite oxidizers of the genus Nitrospira are a monophyletic but diverse group of organisms, are widely distributed in many natural habitats, and play a key role in nitrogen elimination during biological wastewater treatment. Phylogenetic analyses of cloned 16S rRNA genes and fluorescence in situ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Maixner F,Noguera DR,Anneser B,Stoecker K,Wegl G,Wagner M,Daims H

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury (Hg) is a highly toxic and widely distributed heavy metal, which some Bacteria and Archaea detoxify by the reduction of ionic Hg (Hg[II]) to the elemental volatile form, Hg(0). This activity is specified by the mer operon. The mer operon of the deeply branching thermophile Thermus thermophilus HB27 encodes for...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Norambuena J,Miller M,Boyd JM,Barkay T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toluene is a model compound used to study the anaerobic biotransformation of aromatic hydrocarbons. Reports indicate that toluene is transformed via fumarate addition to form benzylsuccinate or by unknown mechanisms to form hydroxylated intermediates under methanogenic conditions. We investigated the mechanism(s) of s...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fowler SJ,Dong X,Sensen CW,Suflita JM,Gieg LM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI nanomachine is critical for Vibrio cholerae to establish infections and to thrive in niches co-occupied by competing bacteria. The genes for the type VI structural proteins are encoded in one large and two small auxiliary gene clusters. VCA0117 (VasH) - a σ54 -transcriptional activator - is strictly requir...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Seibt H,Aung KM,Ishikawa T,Sjöström A,Gullberg M,Atkinson GC,Wai SN,Shingler V

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter lari is a rare human pathogen most commonly associated with birds and shellfish. Little information has been published regarding its prevalence in other environments, or on its potential role as a reservoir of antibiotic resistance. In this study, we characterized 109 C. lari isolated from a range of hos...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Leatherbarrow AJ,Griffiths R,Hart CA,Kemp R,Williams NJ,Diggle PJ,Wright EJ,Sutherst J,Houghton P,French NP

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common polysaccharide antigen (CPA) of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Pseudomonas syringae is highly variable, but the genetic basis for this is poorly understood. We have characterized the CPA locus from P. syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa). This locus has genes for l- and d-rhamnose biosynthesis and an operon cod...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Jayaraman J,Jones WT,Harvey D,Hemara LM,McCann HC,Yoon M,Warring SL,Fineran PC,Mesarich CH,Templeton MD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Major concern in the Mixed Crop-Livestock (MCL) farms, in which livestock and vegetables grown closely in the same facility, is cross-contamination of zoonotic bacterial pathogens especially Salmonella. To investigate the distribution of Salmonella serovars in MCL and their products, a total of 1287 pre-harvest sample...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Peng M,Salaheen S,Almario JA,Tesfaye B,Buchanan R,Biswas D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater bacterioplankton assemblages are composed of sympatric populations that can be delineated, for example, by ribosomal RNA gene relatedness and that differ in key ecophysiological properties. They may be free-living or attached, specialized for particular concentrations or subsets of substrates, or invest a v...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Pernthaler J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine picocyanobacteria of the genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are major contributors to oceanic primary production. The genera are genetically diverse, comprising several known ecotypes or lineages. However, little is known of the distribution of these lineages over large geographic areas. Here, we analysed...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zwirglmaier K,Heywood JL,Chamberlain K,Woodward EM,Zubkov MV,Scanlan DJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activated sludge process relies on the formation of strong microbial flocs. The knowledge about dominant floc-forming bacteria is at present very limited, especially from a phylogenetic perspective. In this study, numerous microcolonies in the activated sludge flocs were found to be targeted by a Betaproteobacteri...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thomsen TR,Nielsen JL,Ramsing NB,Nielsen PH

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of bacterial communities in first-year spring and summer sea ice differs from that in source seawaters, suggesting selection during ice formation in autumn or taxon-specific mortality in the ice during winter. We tested these hypotheses by weekly sampling (January-March 2004) of first-year winter sea ice...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Collins RE,Rocap G,Deming JW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive metagenomic sequencing combined with gene prediction methods were previously used to compile the gene catalogue of the ocean and host-associated microbes. Global expeditions conducted over the past 15 years have sampled the ocean to build a catalogue of genes from pelagic microbes. Here we undertook a large se...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Duarte CM,Ngugi DK,Alam I,Pearman J,Kamau A,Eguiluz VM,Gojobori T,Acinas SG,Gasol JM,Bajic V,Irigoien X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00