Diversity and ecology of and biomineralization by magnetotactic bacteria.

abstract：:As key components of the electron transfer (ET) pathways used for dissimilatory reduction of solid iron [Fe(III)] (hydr)oxides, outer membrane multihaem c-type cytochromes MtrC and OmcA of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and OmcE and OmcS of Geobacter sulfurreducens mediate ET reactions extracellularly. Both MtrC and OmcA ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Shi L,Richardson DJ,Wang Z,Kerisit SN,Rosso KM,Zachara JM,Fredrickson JK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria affiliated with the genus 'Candidatus Scalindua' are responsible for significant nitrogen loss in oceans, and thus their ecophysiology is of great interest. Here, we enriched a marine anammox bacterium, 'Ca. S. japonica' from a Hiroshima bay sediment in Japan, and compar...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Oshiki M,Mizuto K,Kimura ZI,Kindaichi T,Satoh H,Okabe S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus and free-living amoebae are common inhabitants of soil. Mechanisms of A. fumigatus to circumvent the amoeba's digestion may facilitate overcoming the vertebrate macrophage defence mechanisms. We performed co-culture experiments using A. fumigatus conidia and the amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii. A...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Van Waeyenberghe L,Baré J,Pasmans F,Claeys M,Bert W,Haesebrouck F,Houf K,Martel A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial community compositions (BCC) associated with the cladoceran Bosmina coregoni and the cyclopoid copepod Thermocyclops oithonoides in oligotrophic Lake Stechlin versus eutrophic Lake Dagow (northeastern Germany) were compared using molecular techniques. We also transplanted the zooplankton from their native la...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Grossart HP,Dziallas C,Tang KW

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) biomarkers tracing microbiological processes in modern and ancient sediments relies on understanding environmental controls of production and preservation. BHPs from methanotrophs (35-aminoBHPs) were studied in methane-amended aerobic river-sediment incubations at different...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Osborne KA,Gray ND,Sherry A,Leary P,Mejeha O,Bischoff J,Rush D,Sidgwick FR,Birgel D,Kalyuzhnaya MG,Talbot HM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria-host interactions are universal in nature and have significant effects on host functionality. Bacterial secondary metabolites are believed to play key roles in such interactions as well as in interactions within the host-associated microbial community. Hence, prominent secondary metabolite-producing bacteria ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Dittmann KK,Sonnenschein EC,Egan S,Gram L,Bentzon-Tilia M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bumblebees are ecologically and economically important as pollinators of crop and wild plants, especially in temperate systems. Species, such as the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), are reared commercially to pollinate high-value crops. Their highly specific gut microbiota, characterized by low diversity, ma...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Newbold LK,Oliver AE,Cuthbertson L,Walkington SE,Gweon HS,Heard MS,van der Gast CJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Provalidator is a web-based tool that facilitates the design and validation of generalized profiles of protein families in prokaryotes. This tool combines the nearly full automation of profile building with a search for family members in all available databases. The tool is useful for assigning a given protein to a sp...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Molina-Henares AJ,Godoy P,Duque E,Ramos JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrrolysine (Pyl), the 22nd canonical amino acid, is only decoded and synthesized by a limited number of organisms in the domains Archaea and Bacteria. Pyl is encoded by the amber codon UAG, typically a stop codon. To date, all known Pyl-decoding archaea are able to carry out methylotrophic methanogenesis. The functio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Guan Y,Haroon MF,Alam I,Ferry JG,Stingl U

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine cyanobacteria are important contributors to primary production in the ocean and their viruses (cyanophages) affect the ocean microbial communities. Despite reports of lysogeny in marine cyanobacteria, a genome sequence of such temperate cyanophages remains unknown although genomic analysis indicate potential fo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Flores-Uribe J,Philosof A,Sharon I,Fridman S,Larom S,Béjà O

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellate protists in the hindgut of lower termites play an essential role in the digestion of lignocellulose. Most flagellate species are associated with host-specific symbionts from various bacterial lineages, which typically lack cultured representatives. In this study, we analyzed the genome of 'Candidatus An...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Strassert JFH,Mikaelyan A,Woyke T,Brune A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the release of anthropogenic-derived CO2 into the atmosphere will be mainly absorbed by the oceans, with a concomitant drop in pH, a process termed ocean acidification. As such, there is considerable interest in how changes in increased CO2 and lower pH will affect marine biota, such as bac...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Oliver AE,Newbold LK,Whiteley AS,van der Gast CJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutualistic and beneficial relationships between nematodes and bacteria are highly present in nature, mostly occurring because of nutritional dependence and pathogen protection, and intrinsically related with the environment, the ecological conditions and the nematode life stages. Thirty-four years have passed since t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Nascimento FX,Hasegawa K,Mota M,Vicente CS

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in the areal extent of the subtropical gyres over the past decade has been attributed to a global tendency towards increased water-column stratification. Here, we examine how vertical stratification governs the community structure of the picophytoplankton that dominate these vast marine ecosystems. We ana...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Bouman HA,Ulloa O,Barlow R,Li WK,Platt T,Zwirglmaier K,Scanlan DJ,Sathyendranath S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibians are in decline as a result of habitat destruction, climate change and infectious diseases. Tadpoles are thought susceptible to infections because they are dependent on only an innate immune system (e.g. macrophages). This is because the frog adaptive immune system does not function until later stages of the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Chambouvet A,Valigurová A,Pinheiro LM,Richards TA,Jirků M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) in alpine environments is poorly understood, but is of importance given the abundance of alpine environments and the role of MOB in the global carbon cycle. Using a combination of approaches we examined both seasonal and land usage effects on the ecology of microbial methan...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Abell GC,Stralis-Pavese N,Sessitsch A,Bodrossy L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many centuries, hops (Humulus lupulus L.) have been used as essential ingredient in beers, providing the typical bitterness and hoppy flavour. However, the last few years the plant has gained increasing attention as a source of prenylflavonoids and in 1999, 8-prenylnaringenin (8-PN) was identified as the most pote...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Possemiers S,Verstraete W

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species in the order Bacillales form a specialized cell type called a spore that is resistant to a range of environmental stresses. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) reveals that the spore is comprised of a series of concentric shells, surrounding an interior compartment harbouring the spore DNA. The outermo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： de Andrade Cavalcante D,De-Souza MT,de Orem JC,de Magalhães MIA,Martins PH,Boone TJ,Castillo JA,Driks A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of transmission routes and of factors affecting the spatial positions of pathogens, hosts and vectors is basic to an adequate disease management. Nosema ceranae is a Microsporidian recently described as a parasite of Apis mellifera honeybees and is currently considered the aetiological agent of an emerg...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Valera F,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is a toxin, ranking first on the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Environmental Protection Agency Priority List of Hazardous Substances. Chronic exposure increases the risk of a broad range of human illnesses, most notably cancer; however, there is significant variability in arsenic-ind...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： McDermott TR,Stolz JF,Oremland RS

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, geomicrobiologists have focused their researches on the nature and origin of enigmatic reticulated filaments reported in modern and fossil samples from limestone caves and basalt lava tubes. Researchers have posed questions on these filaments concerning their nature, origin, chemistry, morpholog...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Miller AZ,Hernández-Mariné M,Jurado V,Dionísio A,Barquinha P,Fortunato E,Afonso MJ,Chaminé HI,Saiz-Jimenez C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas species, production of secondary metabolites and exoenzymes is regulated by the GacS/GacA two-component regulatory system. In Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25, mutations in the Gac-system cause major transcriptional changes and abolished production of the lipopeptide viscosin and of an exoprotease. In cont...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Cheng X,van der Voort M,Raaijmakers JM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we developed and validated a culture-independent method for diversity surveys to specifically detect endospore-forming Firmicutes. The global transcription regulator of sporulation (spo0A) was identified as a gene marker for endospore-forming Firmicutes. To enable phylogenetic classification, we designe...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Wunderlin T,Junier T,Roussel-Delif L,Jeanneret N,Junier P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With rapidly improving sequencing technologies, scientists have recently gained the ability to examine diverse microbial communities at high genomic resolution, revealing that both free-living and host-associated microbes partition their environment at fine phylogenetic scales. This 'microdiversity,' or closely relate...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Larkin AA,Martiny AC

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida S12.49, a mutant stain of P. putida S12 that tolerates up to 20 mM benzene, was obtained by evolutionary selection. The genetic basis for the strongly enhanced benzene tolerance was investigated by proteome and transcriptome analysis. Indications were found that the highly benzene-tolerant phenotype...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Volkers RJ,Ballerstedt H,De Winde JH,Ruijssenaars HJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corals are inhabited by complex communities of microbes that affect their growth and survival. Several studies suggest that coral disease may be attributed to the success of vibrios in out-competing other bacteria in the mucus and tissues of corals. Vibrios utilize a variety of quorum sensing (QS) signal molecules to ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Tait K,Hutchison Z,Thompson FL,Munn CB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined total uptake of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and glucose and the percentage of prokaryotic cells (Bacteria, Crenarchaea and Euryarchaea) consuming these compounds in the major water masses at the DYFAMED site (NW Mediterranean Sea). The potential assimilation rates of EPS at 10 m depth ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Boutrif M,Garel M,Cottrell MT,Tamburini C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the insect host and its microbiota plays a central role in insect health and is mostly studied in relation to the digestive system. Nonetheless, there are numerous microorganisms occupying multiple habitats in and on insects. We studied microbial communities in the gut and fat body of bumblebee...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Parmentier A,Billiet A,Smagghe G,Vandamme P,Deforce D,Van Nieuwerburgh F,Meeus I

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rumen microbiota plays important roles in nutrient metabolism and absorption of the host. However, it is poorly understood how host genetic variation shapes the community structure of the rumen microbiota and its metabolic phenotype. Here, we used sika deer (Cervus nippon) and elk (Cervus elaphus) to produce the f...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Li Z,Wright AG,Si H,Wang X,Qian W,Zhang Z,Li G

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trophic interactions between viruses, bacteria and protists play a crucial role in structuring microbial communities and regulating nutrient and organic matter flux. Here, we show that the impact on viral density by heterotrophic flagellates is related to their feeding behaviour (feeding on sedimented particles - ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Deng L,Krauss S,Feichtmayer J,Hofmann R,Arndt H,Griebler C

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00