Low-diversity bacterial community in the gut of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis (Bti) produces four Cry toxins (Cry4Aa, Cry4Ba, Cry10Aa and Cry11Aa), and two Cyt proteins (Cyt1Aa and Cyt2Ba), toxic to mosquito-larvae of the genus Aedes, Anopheles and Culex, important human disease vectors that transmit dengue virus, malaria and filarial parasites respective...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fernandez-Luna MT,Lanz-Mendoza H,Gill SS,Bravo A,Soberon M,Miranda-Rios J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulose biodegradation, an essential step in terrestrial carbon cycling, generally involves removal of the recalcitrant lignin barrier that otherwise prevents infiltration by microbial polysaccharide hydrolases. However, fungi that cause brown rot of wood, a major route for biomass recycling in coniferous fores...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yelle DJ,Wei D,Ralph J,Hammel KE

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:We present two genomes of widespread freshwater picocyanobacteria isolated by extinction dilution from a Spanish oligotrophic reservoir. Based on microscopy and genomic properties, both picocyanobacteria were tentatively designated Synechococcus lacustris Tous, formerly described as a metagenome assembled genome (MAG)...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cabello-Yeves PJ,Picazo A,Camacho A,Callieri C,Rosselli R,Roda-Garcia JJ,Coutinho FH,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have surveyed the first 1 m of 10 oligotrophic high mountain lakes in the Central Pyrenees (Spain) for both abundance and predominant phylotypes richness of the archaeaplankton assemblage, using CARD-FISH and 16S rRNA gene sequencing respectively. Archaea inhabiting the air-water surface microlayer (neuston) ranged...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Auguet JC,Casamayor EO

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria are sometimes neither starving nor under nutrient-excess conditions. When growing with suboptimal levels of nutrients, hungry bacteria express appropriate cellular responses. This review discusses approaches to defining the hunger response in both molecular and growth kinetic terms. The gene expression change...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ferenci T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable carbon isotope fractionation during dichloromethane (DCM) degradation by methylotrophic bacteria was investigated under aerobic and nitrate-reducing conditions. The strains studied comprise several Hyphomicrobium strains, Methylobacterium, Methylopila, Methylophilus and Methylorhabdus spp. that are considered t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nikolausz M,Nijenhuis I,Ziller K,Richnow HH,Kästner M

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:Toxin-antitoxin modules are gene pairs encoding a toxin and its antitoxin, and are found on the chromosomes of many bacteria, including pathogens. Here, we characterize the specific contribution of the TxpA and YqcG toxins in elimination of defective cells from developing Bacillus subtilis biofilms. On nutrient limita...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bloom-Ackermann Z,Steinberg N,Rosenberg G,Oppenheimer-Shaanan Y,Pollack D,Ely S,Storzi N,Levy A,Kolodkin-Gal I

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted in a Castanea sativa forest that produces large quantities of the edible mushroom porcini (Boletus edulis sensu lato). The primary aim was to study porcini mycelia in the soil, and to determine if there were any possible ecological and functional interactions with other dominant soil fungi. Three...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Peintner U,Iotti M,Klotz P,Bonuso E,Zambonelli A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that infects immunocompromised patients and trauma victims and causes fatal lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis. This microorganism produces a number of virulence factors, one of which is lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which has been shown to media...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Daniels C,Griffiths C,Cowles B,Lam JS

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:Photosynthetic dinoflagellates contain a diverse collection of plastid types, a situation believed to have arisen from multiple endosymbiotic events. In addition, a number of heterotrophic (phagotrophic) dinoflagellates possess the ability to acquire chloroplasts temporarily by engulfing algae and retaining their chlo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gast RJ,Moran DM,Dennett MR,Caron DA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) have long been considered key to the removal of nitrogen in activated sludge bioreactors. Culture-independent molecular analyses have established that AOB lineages in bioreactors are dynamic, but the underlying operational or environmental factors are unclear. Furthermore, the contribu...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wells GF,Park HD,Yeung CH,Eggleston B,Francis CA,Criddle CS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting spore formation of some aphid-pathogenic Entomophthorales is important for the seasonal pattern of their prevalence and survival but this process is poorly understood. To explore the possible mechanism involved in the process, Pandora nouryi (obligate aphid pathogen) interacted with green peach aphid Myzus per...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Huang ZH,Feng MG

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecules of the diffusible signal factor (DSF)-family are a class of quorum sensing (QS) signals used by the phytopathogens Xanthomonas. Studies during the last decade have outlined how Xanthomonas cells enter the QS phase. However, information on the mechanism underlying its exit from the QS phase is limited. RpfB h...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhou L,Wang XY,Sun S,Yang LC,Jiang BL,He YW

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:To assess the impact of sanitation of a living environment on gut microbiota and development of the immune system, we raised BALB/c mice under three distinct environmental conditions: a specific pathogen-free animal room (SPF), a general animal room (XZ) and a farmhouse (JD). All other variables like diet, age, geneti...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhou D,Zhang H,Bai Z,Zhang A,Bai F,Luo X,Hou Y,Ding X,Sun B,Sun X,Ma N,Wang C,Dai X,Lu Z

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metapopulation theory developed in terrestrial ecology provides applicable frameworks for interpreting the role of local and regional processes in shaping species distribution patterns. Yet, empirical testing of metapopulation models on microbial communities is essentially lacking. We determined regional bacterioplank...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Lindh MV,Sjöstedt J,Ekstam B,Casini M,Lundin D,Hugerth LW,Hu YO,Andersson AF,Andersson A,Legrand C,Pinhassi J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As microbiologists we live in exciting times. A variety of technical and conceptual developments, particularly in the last decade have revolutionized the field of microbiology, redrawing the landscape, and entirely redefining what is possible. Perhaps this paradigm shift is no more apparent than in the study of vibrio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Baker-Austin C,Trinanes J,Martinez-Urtaza J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological role of the widespread mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) in cyanobacteria is under debate. Here, we have constructed and characterized two mutants impaired in MAA biosynthesis in the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806. We could identify shinorine as the sole MAA type of the s...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hu C,Völler G,Süßmuth R,Dittmann E,Kehr JC

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Marine Synechococcus are frequently found in environments where iron (Fe) is a limiting nutrient. To understand their capacity to respond to Fe stress, we screened picoplankton genomes and the Global Ocean Survey metagenome for known Fe stress genes. Many open ocean strains of Synechococcus lack most known genes for F...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Rivers AR,Jakuba RW,Webb EA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enriched sulphidogenic consortium capable of mineralizing benzene was used to study the metabolic pathway of anaerobic benzene degradation. Benzoate was detected in active cultures and benzene was confirmed to be the source of this benzoate by the addition of deuterated benzene (D6) and subsequent detection of deut...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Phelps CD,Zhang X,Young LY

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing (AS) regulates various biological processes in fungi by extending the cellular proteome. However, comprehensive studies investigating AS in entomopathogenic fungi are lacking. Based on transcriptome data obtained via dual RNA-seq, the first overview of AS events was developed for Beauveria bassian...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Dong WX,Ding JL,Gao Y,Peng YJ,Feng MG,Ying SH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thin, vertically structured topsoil communities that become ecologically important in arid regions (biological soil crusts or BSCs) are responsible for much of the nitrogen inputs into pristine arid lands. We studied N(2) fixation and ammonium oxidation (AO) at subcentimetre resolution within BSCs from the Colorado Pl...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Johnson SL,Budinoff CR,Belnap J,Garcia-Pichel F

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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