Isolation and gene quantification of heterotrophic N2-fixing bacterioplankton in the Baltic Sea.

abstract：:Biological membranes have evolved different mechanisms to modify their composition in response to chemical stimuli in a process called 'homeoviscous adaptation'. Among these mechanisms, modifications in the ratio of saturated/unsaturated fatty acids and in cis/trans fatty acid isomers, cyclopropanation and changes in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bernal P,Muñoz-Rojas J,Hurtado A,Ramos JL,Segura A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hopanoids are bacterial surrogates of eukaryotic membrane sterols and among earth's most abundant natural products. Their molecular fossils remain in sediments spanning more than a billion years. However, hopanoid metabolism and function are not fully understood. Burkholderia species are environmental opportunistic pa...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schmerk CL,Welander PV,Hamad MA,Bain KL,Bernards MA,Summons RE,Valvano MA

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：: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：:Investigations of antibiotic resistance from an environmental prospective shed new light on a problem that was traditionally confined to a subset of clinically relevant antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. It is clear that the environmental microbiota, even in apparently antibiotic-free environments, possess an e...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Aminov RI

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the extent of parasite diversity requires the application of appropriate molecular tools, especially given the growing evidence of multiple parasite co-occurrence. Here, we compared the performance of a next-generation sequencing technology (Ion PGM ™ System) in 12 Bombus terrestris specimens that were PCR-i...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bartolomé C,Jabal-Uriel C,Buendía-Abad M,Benito M,Ornosa C,De la Rúa P,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M,Maside X

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paclele Mici is a terrestrial mud volcano field located in the Carpathian Mountains (Romania), where thermal alteration of sedimentary organic compounds leads to methane, higher hydrocarbons and other petroleum compounds that are continuously released into the environment. The hydrocarbons represent potential substrat...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Alain K,Holler T,Musat F,Elvert M,Treude T,Krüger M

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:The genetic and biochemical basis of defence mechanisms in plant pathogenic fungi against antifungal compounds produced by antagonistic microorganisms is largely unknown. The results of this study show that both degradative and non-degradative defence mechanisms enable the plant pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea to r...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schouten A,Maksimova O,Cuesta-Arenas Y,van den Berg G,Raaijmakers JM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global change models indicate that rainfall patterns are likely to shift towards more extreme events concurrent with increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2 ]). Both changes in [CO2 ] and rainfall regime are known to impact above- and belowground communities, but the interactive effects of these glob...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Drigo B,Nielsen UN,Jeffries TC,Curlevski NJA,Singh BK,Duursma RA,Anderson IC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain new amidases of biocatalytic relevance, we used microorganisms indigenous to different types of soil and sediment as a source of DNA for the construction of environmental gene banks, following two different strategies. In one case, DNA was isolated from soil without preceding cultivation to preserve a high d...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gabor EM,de Vries EJ,Janssen DB

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In San Biagio of Belpasso, approximately 20 km south of Mt. Etna, in the area of contact between volcanic and sedimentary formations, a number of small (3- 60 cm in diameter) active mud eruptions discharge CO2-rich gases, mud and NaCl brines. They can be described as mini-volcanoes owing to their typical conic shapes ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yakimov MM,Giuliano L,Crisafi E,Chernikova TN,Timmis KN,Golyshin PN

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial organization of gut microorganisms is important with respect to their functional role in the gut ecosystem. Regional differences in the longitudinal and lateral direction are, however, not frequently studied, given the difficulty to sample these human gut regions in vivo. Particularly the insoluble food pa...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： De Paepe K,Verspreet J,Verbeke K,Raes J,Courtin CM,Van de Wiele T

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are dynamic players in biogeochemical cycling in running waters and are subjected to environmental stressors like those provoked by climate change. We investigated whether a 2°C increase in flowing water would affect prokaryotic community composition and heterotrophic metabolic activities of biofilms grown un...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Romaní AM,Borrego CM,Díaz-Villanueva V,Freixa A,Gich F,Ylla I

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemolysin from enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC-Hly) and the serine protease EspPα are putative virulence factors of EHEC. We investigated the interplay between these secreted factors and demonstrate that EspPα cleaves the 107 kDa large EHEC-Hly. Degradation was observed when purified EspPα was added to ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Brockmeyer J,Aldick T,Soltwisch J,Zhang W,Tarr PI,Weiss A,Dreisewerd K,Müthing J,Bielaszewska M,Karch H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Black Sea is the largest anoxic water basin on Earth and its stratified water column comprises an upper oxic, middle suboxic and a lower permanently anoxic, sulfidic zone. The abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in water samples was determined by quantifying the copy number of the dsrA gene coding for the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Neretin LN,Abed RM,Schippers A,Schubert CJ,Kohls K,Kuypers MM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cape Floral Kingdom is an area of unique plant biodiversity in South Africa with exceptional concentrations of rare and endemic species and experiencing drastic habitat loss. Here we present the first molecular study of the microbial diversity associated with the rhizosphere soil of endemic plants of the Proteacea...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Stafford WH,Baker GC,Brown SA,Burton SG,Cowan DA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacteria are highly abundant in pelagic freshwater habitats and also occur in estuarine environments such as the Baltic Sea. Because of gradients in salinity and other environmental variables estuaries offer natural systems for examining factors that determine Actinobacteria distribution. We studied abundance an...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Holmfeldt K,Dziallas C,Titelman J,Pohlmann K,Grossart HP,Riemann L

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:It has generally been accepted that the formation of granules in anaerobic wastewater treatment systems requires a hydraulic upflow pattern. To evaluate this hypothesis, we operated an anaerobic migrating blanket reactor (AMBR) without a hydraulic upflow pattern, using a synthetic wastewater containing acetate, propio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Angenent LT,Sung S,Raskin L

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine fish larvae are immature upon hatching, and share their environment with high numbers of bacteria. The microbial communities associated with developing fish larvae might be structured by other factors than those important in developing terrestrial animals. Here, we analysed the beta (β)-diversity of the microbi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bakke I,Coward E,Andersen T,Vadstein O

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) superfamily proteins are found ubiquitously in microbial pathways involved in the catabolism of aromatic substances. Although extensive bioinformatic data on these proteins have been acquired, confusion caused by problems with the annotation of these proteins hinders research into d...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hong H,Seo H,Park W,Kim KJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The APSES protein family comprises a conserved class of fungus-specific transcriptional regulators. Some members have been identified in partial ascomycetes. In this study, the APSES protein StuA (AoStuA) of the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora was characterized. Compared with the wild-type (WT) strain...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Xie M,Wang Y,Tang L,Yang L,Zhou D,Li Q,Niu X,Zhang KQ,Yang J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under conditions of iron limitation Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400 produces two siderophores, pyoverdine, and a second siderophore quinolobactin, which itself results from the hydrolysis of the unstable molecule 8-hydroxy-4-methoxy-2-quinoline thiocarboxylic acid (thioquinolobactin). Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 1...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Matthijs S,Tehrani KA,Laus G,Jackson RW,Cooper RM,Cornelis P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of Vibrio aestuarianus 01/032 with haemolymph of the bivalves Mytilus galloprovincialis and Crassostrea gigas were investigated to understand if haemolymph components (haemocytes and soluble factors) could be involved in the higher resistance to microbial infection shown by mussels in comparison with ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Pezzati E,Canesi L,Damonte G,Salis A,Marsano F,Grande C,Vezzulli L,Pruzzo C

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Fruiting body development and carotenoid production are light-induced in Cordyceps militaris. Our previous studies have shown that two blue-light receptors, CmWC-1 and CmCRY-DASH, regulate fruiting body development and secondary metabolism. However, the photosensory system of C. militaris remains unclear. Here, gene d...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang J,Wang F,Yang Y,Wang Y,Dong C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mas5, a yeast heat shock protein classified to the Hsp40 group, is homologous to bacterial archetype DnaJ but functionally unexplored in filamentous fungi. Here we identify a Mas5 homologue (46.86 kDa) in Beauveria bassiana and show its indispensability for host infection and environmental adaptation of the fungal ins...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang J,Ying SH,Hu Y,Feng MG

更新日期：2016-03-01 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