An alpha-amylase is a novel receptor for Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis Cry4Ba and Cry11Aa toxins in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles albimanus (Diptera: Culicidae).

abstract：:Microbial consumption is one of the main processes, along with photolysis and ventilation, that remove the biogenic trace gas dimethylsulfide (DMS) from the surface ocean. Although a few isolates of marine bacteria have been studied for their ability to utilize DMS, little is known about the characteristics or phyloge...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Vila-Costa M,Del Valle DA,González JM,Slezak D,Kiene RP,Sánchez O,Simó R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the composition of eukaryotic communities using two genetic markers (18S rRNA V4 and V9 regions) at 27 sites sampled during Ocean Sampling Day 2014, with a focus on photosynthetic groups and, more specifically green algae (Chlorophyta). Globally, the V4 and V9 regions of the 18S rRNA gene provided similar ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tragin M,Zingone A,Vaulot D

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:The stimulation of bacteria capable of reducing soluble U(VI) to sparingly soluble U(IV) is a promising approach for containing U(VI) plumes. Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans is capable of mediating this activity; however, its ability to couple U(VI) reduction to growth has not been established. Monitoring the increase i...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sanford RA,Wu Q,Sung Y,Thomas SH,Amos BK,Prince EK,Löffler FE

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the anaerobic biodegradation of naphthalene and methylnaphthalene, unique metabolites are formed by specific microbial carboxylation and ring-reduction reactions. Groundwater samples from an anoxic, shallow aquifer contaminated with gasoline were examined for the presence of these metabolites by extraction, der...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Phelps CD,Battistelli J,Young LY

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoospores of the eukaryotic green seaweed Ulva respond to bacterial N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) quorum sensing signal molecules for the selection of surface sites for permanent attachment. In this study we have investigated the production and destruction of AHLs in biofilms of the AHL-producing marine bacterium, Vi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tait K,Joint I,Daykin M,Milton DL,Williams P,Cámara M

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:In aquatic ecosystems, microplastics are a relatively new anthropogenic substrate that can readily be colonized by biofilm-forming organisms. To examine the effects of substrate type on microbial community assembly, we exposed ambient Baltic bacterioplankton to plastic substrates commonly found in marine environments ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ogonowski M,Motiei A,Ininbergs K,Hell E,Gerdes Z,Udekwu KI,Bacsik Z,Gorokhova E

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquatic sediments harbour diverse microbial communities that mediate organic matter degradation and influence biogeochemical cycles. The pool of bioavailable carbon continuously changes as a result of abiotic processes and microbial activity. It remains unclear how microbial communities respond to heterogeneous organi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Mahmoudi N,Beaupré SR,Steen AD,Pearson A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium, Leptolyngbya nodulosa, could be grown indefinitely in media devoid of combined nitrogen. Acetylene reduction assays showed that these cultures fixed nitrogen in the dark period of a diurnal cycle under micro-oxygenic or anaerobic conditions. Addition of DCMU to culture...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Li Z,Yu J,Kim KR,Brand J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hostile environments diversity within a bacterial population may be beneficial for the fitness of the microbial community as a whole. Here we analysed the population diversity of Staphylococcus aureus in infecting and colonizing situations. In the study, performed independently in two German centres, the heterogene...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Goerke C,Gressinger M,Endler K,Breitkopf C,Wardecki K,Stern M,Wolz C,Kahl BC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the effect of different chloroethenes (electron acceptors) on the bacterial composition of dechlorinating communities, two reductive dechlorinating enrichment cultures were developed that were able to reduce trichloroethene (TCE) and cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) to ethene using hydrogen as electr...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gu AZ,Hedlund BP,Staley JT,Strand SE,Stensel HD

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Methanotrophic bacteria represent an important biological filter regulating methane emissions into the atmosphere. Planktonic methanotrophic communities in freshwater lakes are typically dominated by aerobic gamma-proteobacteria, with a contribution from alpha-proteobacterial methanotrophs and the NC10 bacteria. The N...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Graf JS,Mayr MJ,Marchant HK,Tienken D,Hach PF,Brand A,Schubert CJ,Kuypers MMM,Milucka J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth conditions for heterotrophic bacteria in the environment are characterized by low concentrations of carbon and energy sources and complex substrate mixtures. While mechanisms of starvation-survival in the absence of carbon substrates have been studied in considerable detail, information on the physiology of slo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ihssen J,Egli T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultivation-independent surveys of ribosomal RNA genes have revealed the existence of novel microbial lineages, many with no known cultivated representatives. Ribosomal RNA-based analyses, however, often do not provide significant information beyond phylogenetic affiliation. Analysis of large genome fragments recovere...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Béjà O,Suzuki MT,Koonin EV,Aravind L,Hadd A,Nguyen LP,Villacorta R,Amjadi M,Garrigues C,Jovanovich SB,Feldman RA,DeLong EF

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metarhizium robertsii occupies a wide array of ecological niches and has diverse lifestyle options (saprophyte, insect pathogen and plant symbiont), that renders it an unusually effective model for studying genetic mechanisms for fungal adaptation. Here over 20,000 M. robertsii T-DNA mutants were screened in order to ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zeng G,Chen X,Zhang X,Zhang Q,Xu C,Mi W,Guo N,Zhao H,You Y,Dryburgh FJ,Bidochka MJ,St Leger RJ,Zhang L,Fang W

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:The cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are important marine primary producers. We explored their distributions and covariance along a physico-chemical gradient from coastal to open ocean waters in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. An inter-annual pattern was delineated in the dynamic transition zone where u...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sudek S,Everroad RC,Gehman AL,Smith JM,Poirier CL,Chavez FP,Worden AZ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the distribution of estuarine ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) was influenced by salinity, the community structure of betaproteobacterial ammonia oxidizers (AOB) was characterized along a salinity gradient in sediments of the Ythan estuary, on the east coast of Scotland, UK, by denaturant gradient...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Freitag TE,Chang L,Prosser JI

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic diversity of Bacteria and Archaea within a biodegraded, mesothermic petroleum reservoir in the Schrader Bluff Formation of Alaska was examined by two culture-independent methods based on fosmid and small-subunit rRNA gene PCR clone libraries. Despite the exclusion of certain groups by each method, the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Pham VD,Hnatow LL,Zhang S,Fallon RD,Jackson SC,Tomb JF,DeLong EF,Keeler SJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex ecology of free-living amoebae (FLA) and their role in spreading pathogenic microorganisms through water systems have recently raised considerable interest. In this study, we investigated the presence of FLA and amoebae-resisting bacteria (ARB) at various stages of a drinking water plant fed with river wat...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thomas V,Loret JF,Jousset M,Greub G

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrifying bacteria were enriched from freshwater sediment with added nitrate as electron acceptor and crude oil as the only source of organic substrates. The enrichment cultures were used as laboratory model systems for studying the degradative potential of denitrifying bacteria with respect to crude oil constituen...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Rabus R,Wilkes H,Schramm A,Harms G,Behrends A,Amann R,Widdel F

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a multitude of resistance strategies that microbes can apply to avoid inhibition by antimicrobials. One of these strategies is the enzymatic modification of the antibiotic, in a process generally termed inactivation. Furthermore, some microorganisms may not be limited to the mere inactivation of the antimicr...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Perri R,Kolvenbach BA,Corvini PFX

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several diazotrophic species of Azoarcus spp. occur as endophytes in the pioneer plant Kallar grass. The purpose of this study was to screen Asian wild rice and cultivated Oryza sativa varieties for natural association with these endophytes. Populations of culturable diazotrophs in surface-sterilized roots were charac...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Engelhard M,Hurek T,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Temperature is an important correlate of global patterns of biodiversity, yet the mechanisms driving these relationships are not well understood. Taxa-area relationships (TARs) have been intensively examined, but the effects of temperature on TARs, particularly for microbial communities, are largely undocumented. Here...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Deng Y,Ning D,Qin Y,Xue K,Wu L,He Z,Yin H,Liang Y,Buzzard V,Michaletz ST,Zhou J

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Atypical, strongly haemolytic porcine isolates of intestinal spirochaetes differing genetically from Brachyspira hyodysenteriae were identified and characterized. The isolates were subjected to culture and biochemical tests, antimicrobial susceptibility testing and molecular analyses. None of four species-specific pol...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Råsbäck T,Jansson DS,Johansson KE,Fellström C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial diversity of an industrial biofilter used for waste gas abatement in an animal-rendering plant was investigated. A 16S rDNA clone library was generated and 444 clones were screened using computer-aided amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA). Of the screened clones, 60.8% showed unique ARDRA...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Friedrich U,Prior K,Altendorf K,Lipski A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00