Using a genetic algorithm to drive a microbial ecosystem in a desirable direction.

abstract：:The microbial communities established in soil samples from an unsaturated, petroleum-contaminated zone and from an adjacent uncontaminated site were characterized by physiological and molecular approaches. Possible electron acceptors such as sulfate and nitrate had been completely depleted in these soil samples. Slurr...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kasai Y,Takahata Y,Hoaki T,Watanabe K

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies assessing the effects of anthropogenic inputs on the taxonomic and functional diversity of bacterioplankton communities in lotic ecosystems are limited. Here, we applied 16S rRNA gene amplicon and whole-genome shotgun sequencing to examine the microbial diversity in samples from the Kalamas River (Northwest Gr...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meziti A,Tsementzi D,Ar Kormas K,Karayanni H,Konstantinidis KT

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：:The anterior nares are an important reservoir for opportunistic pathogens and commensal microorganisms. A barcoded Illumina paired-end sequencing method targeting the 16S ribosomal RNA V1-2 hypervariable region was developed to compare the bacterial diversity of the anterior nares across distinct human populations (vo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Camarinha-Silva A,Jáuregui R,Chaves-Moreno D,Oxley AP,Schaumburg F,Becker K,Wos-Oxley ML,Pieper DH

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacteria associated with freshwater ecosystems can pose significant health risks particularly where recreational water use is popular. Common water quality assessments involve quantifying indicator Escherichia coli within the water column but neglect to consider physical and geochemical factors and contribu...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： VanMensel D,Chaganti SR,Droppo IG,Weisener CG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in soil is driven by a combination of interacting biological processes. Several investigations have brought evidence that the rhizosphere provides a remarkable ecological niche to enhance the PCB degradation process by rhizobacteria. The bacterial oxidative enzymes involved...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sylvestre M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two phylogenetically distinct marine strains producing transparent exopolymers (TEP), designated HTCC2155(T) and HTCC2160, were cultivated from Oregon coast seawater by dilution to extinction in a high throughput culturing format. When cultured in low-nutrient seawater media, these strains copiously produced Alcian Bl...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cho JC,Vergin KL,Morris RM,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialized organotrophic Bacteria 'syntrophs' and methanogenic Archaea 'methanogens' form a unique metabolic interaction to accomplish cooperative mineralization of organic compounds to CH4 and CO2 . Due to challenges in cultivation of syntrophs, mechanisms for how their organotrophic catabolism circumvents thermodyn...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nobu MK,Narihiro T,Liu M,Kuroda K,Mei R,Liu WT

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse methylotrophic bacteria were isolated from the tongue, and supra- and subgingival plaque in the mouths of volunteers and patients with periodontitis. One-carbon compounds such as dimethylsulfide in the mouth are likely to be used as growth substrates for these organisms. Methylotrophic strains of Bacillus, Bre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Anesti V,McDonald IR,Ramaswamy M,Wade WG,Kelly DP,Wood AP

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of individual bacterioplankton species in the re-mineralization of algal biomass are poorly understood. Evidence from molecular data had indicated that a spring diatom bloom in the German Bight of the North Sea in 2009 was followed by a rapid succession of uncultivated bacterioplankton species, including mem...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hahnke RL,Bennke CM,Fuchs BM,Mann AJ,Rhiel E,Teeling H,Amann R,Harder J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although plants introduced for site restoration are pre-selected for specific traits (e.g. trace element bioaccumulation, rapid growth in poor soils), the in situ success of these plants likely depends on the recruitment of appropriate rhizosphere microorganisms from their new environment. We introduced three willow (...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bell TH,Cloutier-Hurteau B,Al-Otaibi F,Turmel MC,Yergeau E,Courchesne F,St-Arnaud M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 RifR , a broad-host-range rhizobial strain, forms ineffective nodules with Lotus japonicus but induces nitrogen-fixing nodules in Lotus burttii roots that are infected by intercellular entry. Here we show that HH103 RifR nolR or nodD2 mutants gain the ability to induce infection thread forma...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Acosta-Jurado S,Rodríguez-Navarro DN,Kawaharada Y,Rodríguez-Carvajal MA,Gil-Serrano A,Soria-Díaz ME,Pérez-Montaño F,Fernández-Perea J,Niu Y,Alias-Villegas C,Jiménez-Guerrero I,Navarro-Gómez P,López-Baena FJ,Kelly S,Sandal N,

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular approaches have revealed considerable diversity and uncultured novelty in natural prokaryotic populations, but not direct links between the new genotypes detected and ecosystem processes. Here we describe the influence of the structure of communities of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria on nitrogen cycling in micro...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Webster G,Embley TM,Freitag TE,Smith Z,Prosser JI

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:The influence of microbial degradation on the 13C/12C isotope composition of aromatic hydrocarbons is presented using toluene as a model compound. Four different toluene-degrading bacterial strains grown in batch culture with oxygen, nitrate, ferric iron or sulphate as electron acceptors were studied as representative...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meckenstock RU,Morasch B,Warthmann R,Schink B,Annweiler E,Michaelis W,Richnow HH

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Biofilm formation is crucial to the environmental survival and transmission of Vibrio cholerae, the facultative human pathogen responsible for the disease cholera. During its infectious cycle, V. cholerae experiences fluctuations in temperature within the aquatic environment and during the transition between human hos...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Townsley L,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of inorganic particle concentrations on bacteria-virus-nanoflagellate dynamics in an oligotrophic coastal system was investigated using a model aluminosilicate, kaolinite, with a modal size of 2.1 µm. Virus-only, bacteria-only and bacteria-virus-nanoflagellate incubations were carried out at increasing kaol...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Salter I,Böttjer D,Christaki U

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent analysis revealed that most environmental microbiologists neglect replication in their science (Prosser, 2010). Of all peer-reviewed papers published during 2009 in the field's leading journals, slightly more than 70% lacked replication when it came to analyzing microbial community data. The paucity of replic...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Lennon JT

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes have obligate requirements for trace metals in metalloenzymes that catalyse important biogeochemical reactions. In anoxic methane- and sulphide-rich environments, microbes may have unique adaptations for metal acquisition and utilization because of decreased bioavailability as a result of metal sulphide preci...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Glass JB,Yu H,Steele JA,Dawson KS,Sun S,Chourey K,Pan C,Hettich RL,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the distribution of chloropigments in a small meromictic lake, Lake Kaiike, south-west Japan. In the water-column, concentrations of Chl a related to cyanobacteria, BChl a related to purple sulphur bacteria, and three types of BChl e homologues (BChls e1, e2 and e3) related to brown-coloured green sulp...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nakajima Y,Okada H,Oguri K,Suga H,Kitazato H,Koizumi Y,Fukui M,Ohkouchi N

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs (AAPs) was recently reported from various marine environments; however, there is little information regarding their distribution in fresh waters. We surveyed a number of freshwater systems in central Europe, by infra-red fluorometry, infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Masín M,Nedoma J,Pechar L,Koblízek M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wide-spread abundance in soil and water, coupled with high toxicity have put arsenic at the top of the list of environmental contaminants. Early studies demonstrated that both concentration and the valence state of inorganic arsenic (arsenite, As(III) vs. arsenate As(V)) can be modulated by microbes. Using genetics, t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tokmina-Lukaszewska M,Shi Z,Tripet B,McDermott TR,Copié V,Bothner B,Wang G

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic bacteria reductively dechlorinate polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in aquatic sediments, but these microorganisms remain uncultured and, until now, unidentified. Through denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of 16S rDNA from a highly enriched ortho-PCB dechlorinating culture, the growth of a single ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cutter LA,Watts JE,Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe the application of a new click chemistry method for fluorescent tracking of protein synthesis in individual microorganisms within environmental samples. This technique, termed bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT), is based on the in vivo incorporation of the non-canonical amino acid...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hatzenpichler R,Scheller S,Tavormina PL,Babin BM,Tirrell DA,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Streptomycin is used in arboriculture to control fire blight. Using sheep as a model, multidrug-resistant bacteria in mammals were found to be selected after the intentional release of streptomycin into the environment. Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus spp. were isolated from the faeces and nasal cavities, respecti...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Scherer A,Vogt HR,Vilei EM,Frey J,Perreten V

更新日期：2013-01-01 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