Polymorphism and recombination for rDNA in the putatively asexual microsporidian Nosema ceranae, a pathogen of honeybees.

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms behind the mutagenic effect of reactive oxygen species (ROS) released by defective metabolization of xenobiotic 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT) by a still-evolving degradation pathway were studied. To this end, the genes required for biodegradation of DNT from Burkholderia cepacia R34 were implanted ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Akkaya Ö,Nikel PI,Pérez-Pantoja D,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:In aerobic chemostat cultures maintained at 50% dissolved O(2) tension (3.5 mg l(-1) dissolved O(2)), Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 rapidly aggregated upon addition of 0.68 mM CaCl(2) and retained this multicellular phenotype at high dilution rates. Confocal microscopy analysis of the extracellular matrix material...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： McLean JS,Pinchuk GE,Geydebrekht OV,Bilskis CL,Zakrajsek BA,Hill EA,Saffarini DA,Romine MF,Gorby YA,Fredrickson JK,Beliaev AS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral production was determined in the sub-Antarctic zone (SAZ) to the southwest and southeast of Tasmania and in the Polar Frontal zone (PFZ) of the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean during Austral summer (January-February 2007). Concentrations of viruses were the lowest (6.6 x 10(9) particles l(-1)) in the PFZ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Evans C,Pearce I,Brussaard CP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are thin layers of bacteria embedded within a slime matrix that live on surfaces. They are ubiquitous in nature and responsible for many medical and dental infections, industrial fouling and are also evident in ancient fossils. A biofilm structure is shaped by growth, detachment and response to mechanical for...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fabbri S,Li J,Howlin RP,Rmaile A,Gottenbos B,De Jager M,Starke EM,Aspiras M,Ward MT,Cogan NG,Stoodley P

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:The genome of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida strain KT2440 has been erased of various determinants of resistance to antibiotics encoded in its extant chromosome. To this end, we employed a coherent genetic platform that allowed the precise deletion of multiple genomic segments in a large variety of Gram-negativ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez-García E,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous cyanobacteria are the main founders and primary producers in biological desert soil crusts (BSCs) and are likely equipped to cope with one of the harshest environmental conditions on earth including daily hydration/dehydration cycles, high irradiance and extreme temperatures. Here, we resolved and report o...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Murik O,Oren N,Shotland Y,Raanan H,Treves H,Kedem I,Keren N,Hagemann M,Pade N,Kaplan A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verticillium wilt in cotton caused by Verticillium dahliae is one of the most serious plant diseases worldwide. Because no known fungicides or cotton cultivars provide sufficient protection against this pathogen, V. dahliae causes major crop yield losses. Here, an isolated cotton endophytic bacterium, designated Bacil...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Han Q,Wu F,Wang X,Qi H,Shi L,Ren A,Liu Q,Zhao M,Tang C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food security depends on enhancing production and reducing loss to pests and pathogens. A promising alternative to agrochemicals is the use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), which are commonly associated with many, if not all, plant species. However, exploiting the benefits of PGPRs requires knowledge of...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Alsohim AS,Taylor TB,Barrett GA,Gallie J,Zhang XX,Altamirano-Junqueira AE,Johnson LJ,Rainey PB,Jackson RW

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and the metabolic pathways of bacteria degrading steroid compounds released by eukaryotic organisms were investigated using the bile salt cholate as model substrate. Cholate-degrading bacteria could be readily isolated from freshwater environments. All isolated strains transiently released steroid deg...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Holert J,Yücel O,Suvekbala V,Kulić Z,Möller H,Philipp B

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Despite its environmental robustness Pseudomonas putida strain KT2440 is very sensitive to DNA damage and displays poor homologous recombination efficiencies. To gain an insight into this deficiency isogenic ∆recA and ∆lexA1 derivatives of prophage-free strain P. putida EM173 were generated and responses of the recA a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Akkaya Ö,Aparicio T,Pérez-Pantoja D,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens rely on quorum sensing to control virulence gene expression. Based on numerous experiments conducted under well-defined conditions, quorum sensing interference is considered as a promising strategy to tackle infections and thus might have the potential to (partially) replace antibiotics. Despi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Liu Y,Qin Q,Defoirdt T

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serpentinization is the hydration and oxidation of ultramafic rock, which occurs as oceanic lithosphere is emplaced onto continental margins (ophiolites), and along the seafloor as faulting exposes this mantle-derived material to circulating hydrothermal fluids. This process leads to distinctive fluid chemistries as m...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sabuda MC,Brazelton WJ,Putman LI,McCollom TM,Hoehler TM,Kubo MDY,Cardace D,Schrenk MO

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:The gene abundance and gene expression of six diazotroph populations from the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic in June 2007 were examined using nifH gene quantitative polymerase chain reaction (q PCR) methods. Of all the diazotrophs, Trichodesmium spp. was the most abundant with the highest number of gene copies in the Gul...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Foster RA,Subramaniam A,Zehr JP

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ikaite tufa columns from the Ikka Fjord in south-western Greenland constitute a natural, stable environment at low temperature and with a pH ranging from neutral at the exterior to very alkaline (pH 10.4) at the interior of the column. Phylogenetic analysis of culturable organisms revealed ten different isolates repre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Stougaard P,Jørgensen F,Johnsen MG,Hansen OC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In warm regions, agricultural fields are occupied by complex Aspergillus flavus communities composed of isolates in many vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) with varying abilities to produce highly toxic, carcinogenic aflatoxins. Aflatoxin contamination is reduced with biocontrol products that enable atoxigenic iso...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ortega-Beltran A,Callicott KA,Cotty PJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High temperatures (e.g., fever) and gut microbiota can both influence host resistance to infection. However, effects of temperature-driven changes in gut microbiota on resistance to parasites remain unexplored. We examined the temperature dependence of infection and gut bacterial communities in bumble bees infected wi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Palmer-Young EC,Ngor L,Burciaga Nevarez R,Rothman JA,Raffel TR,McFrederick QS

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:The factors that control the production of microcystins (hepatotoxins) during cyanobacterial blooms, and the function of these metabolites remain largely unknown. In an attempt to provide answers to these questions, we compared the fitness of microcystin (MC)-producing and non-MC-producing Planktothrix agardhii strain...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Briand E,Yéprémian C,Humbert JF,Quiblier C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440 encodes singular orthologues of genes crp (encoding the catabolite repression protein, Crp) and cyaA (adenylate cyclase) of Escherichia coli. The levels of cAMP formed by P. putida cells were below detection with a Dictyostelium biosensor in vivo. The cyaA(P. ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Milanesio P,Arce-Rodríguez A,Muñoz A,Calles B,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recognition of the importance of soil bacteria to terrestrial ecosystem functioning there is little consensus on the factors regulating belowground biodiversity. Here we present a multi-scale spatial assessment of soil bacterial community profiles across Great Britain (> 1000 soil cores), and show the first la...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Griffiths RI,Thomson BC,James P,Bell T,Bailey M,Whiteley AS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary metabolites (SMs) are crucial for fungi and vary in function from beneficial antibiotics to pathogenicity factors. To generate diversified SMs that enable different functions, SM-coding regions rapidly evolve in fungal genomes. However, the driving force and genetic mechanism of fungal SM diversification in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhong Z,Lin L,Zheng H,Bao J,Chen M,Zhang L,Tang W,Ebbole DJ,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria are filamentous organisms that perform oxygenic photosynthesis and CO2 fixation in vegetative cells and nitrogen fixation in heterocysts, which are formed under deprivation of combined nitrogen. These organisms can acclimate to use different sources of nitrogen and respond to different...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Herrero A,Flores E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the ecosystem functioning in the dark portion of the ocean is a challenge that microbial ecologists are still facing. Due to the large volume, the global deep Ocean plays a central role in the regulation of climate, possibly buffering the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide if processes of CO2 fixation co...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Celussi M,Malfatti F,Ziveri P,Giani M,Del Negro P

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：: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