Opportunistic bacteria use quorum sensing to disturb coral symbiotic communities and mediate the occurrence of coral bleaching.

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

abstract：:The ascidian Cystodytes dellechiajei (Della Valle, 1877) (phylum Chordata, class Ascidiacea, family Polycitoridae) is a colonial tunicate that inhabits benthic rock environments in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Its life cycle has two phases, the adult sessile colony and the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez-García M,Díaz-Valdés M,Wanner G,Ramos-Esplá A,Antón J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is the most abundant redox-active metal in the Earth's crust. The one electron transfer between the two most common redox states, Fe(II) and Fe(III), plays a role in a huge range of environmental processes from mineral formation and dissolution to contaminant remediation and global biogeochemical cycling. It has ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bryce C,Blackwell N,Schmidt C,Otte J,Huang YM,Kleindienst S,Tomaszewski E,Schad M,Warter V,Peng C,Byrne JM,Kappler A

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：:Manganese chemistry in soils is a function of complex, competing biotic and abiotic reactions. The role of soil-borne fungi in mediating these reactions is poorly understood. The objective of this article is to document direct observation of fungal Mn oxidation in soil under near in situ conditions, and to isolate, de...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson IA,Huber DM,Guest CA,Schulze DG

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arctic permafrost soils store large amounts of organic matter that is sensitive to temperature increases and subsequent microbial degradation to methane (CH 4 ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Here, we studied methanogenic and methanotrophic activity and community composition in thermokarst lake sediments from Utqiag˙vik ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： de Jong AEE,In 't Zandt MH,Meisel OH,Jetten MSM,Dean JF,Rasigraf O,Welte CU

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory roles of the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors (TFs) in fungi have been identified in diverse cellular processes such as development, nutrient utilization and various stress responses. In this study, the 22 Magnaporthe oryzae genes encoding bZIP TFs were systematically characterized. Phyloge...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kong S,Park SY,Lee YH

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmenaquinol : fumarate reductase (Mfr) is a newly recognized type of fumarate reductase present in some epsilon-proteobacteria, where the active site subunit (MfrA) is localized in the periplasm, but for which a physiological role has not been identified. We show that the Campylobacter jejuni mfrABE operon is tra...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Guccione E,Hitchcock A,Hall SJ,Mulholland F,Shearer N,van Vliet AH,Kelly DJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Technologies for massively parallel sequencing are revolutionizing microbial ecology and are vastly increasing the scale of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene studies. Although pyrosequencing has increased the breadth and depth of possible rRNA gene sampling, one drawback is that the number of reads obtained per sample is diff...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gihring TM,Green SJ,Schadt CW

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Located in the Northern Territory of Australia, Ranger uranium mine is directly adjacent to the UNESCO World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park, with rehabilitation targets needed to ensure the site can be incorporated into the park following the mine's closure in 2026. This study aimed to understand the impact of u...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sutcliffe B,Chariton AA,Harford AJ,Hose GC,Greenfield P,Elbourne LDH,Oytam Y,Stephenson S,Midgley DJ,Paulsen IT

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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：:Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant biological entities in the biosphere and play a key role in global biogeochemical cycling. All T4-type bacteriophage isolates tested so far have a conserved genetic module that encodes the virion components including gene 23 (g23), the major capsi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Jia Z,Ishihara R,Nakajima Y,Asakawa S,Kimura M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol derived from plant tissue is ubiquitous in anaerobic sediments and a good substrate for anaerobes growing on C1 compounds such as methanogens and acetogens. In contrast to methanogens little is known about the physiology, biochemistry and bioenergetics of methanol utilization in acetogenic bacteria. To fill t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kremp F,Poehlein A,Daniel R,Müller V

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As filter-feeders, bivalve molluscs accumulate Vibrio into edible tissues. Consequently, an accurate assessment of depuration procedures and the characterization of the persistent Vibrio community in depurated shellfish represent a key issue to guarantee food safety in shellfish products. The present study investigate...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zampieri A,Carraro L,Cardazzo B,Milan M,Babbucci M,Smits M,Boffo L,Fasolato L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 2008, Kasatochi volcano erupted and buried a small island in pyroclastic deposits and fine ash; since then, microbes, plants and birds have begun to re-colonize the initially sterile surface. Five years post-eruption, bacterial 16S rRNA gene and fungal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) copy numbers and extra...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zeglin LH,Wang B,Waythomas C,Rainey F,Talbot SL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the oil in low temperature, non-uplifted reservoirs is biodegraded due to millions of years of microbial activity, including via methanogenesis from crude oil. To evaluate stimulating additional methanogenesis in already heavily biodegraded oil reservoirs, oil sands samples were amended with nutrients and elec...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： de Rezende JR,Oldenburg TBP,Korin T,Richardson WDL,Fustic M,Aitken CM,Bowler BFJ,Sherry A,Grigoryan A,Voordouw G,Larter SR,Head IM,Hubert CRJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine sponges often harbour communities of symbiotic microorganisms that fulfil necessary functions for the well-being of their hosts. Microbial communities associated with the sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile were used as bioindicators for sublethal cupric ion (Cu2+) stress. A combined strategy incorporating molecular,...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Webster NS,Webb RI,Ridd MJ,Hill RT,Negri AP

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Alcanivorax is an alkane-degrading marine bacterium which propagates and becomes predominant in crude-oil-containing seawater when nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients are supplemented. In order to understand why Alcanivorax overcomes other bacteria under such cultural conditions, competition experiments between Alcanivo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hara A,Syutsubo K,Harayama S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate oceans are inhabited by diverse and temporally dynamic bacterioplankton communities. However, the role of the environment, resources and phytoplankton dynamics in shaping marine bacterioplankton communities at different time scales remains poorly constrained. Here, we combined time series observations (time ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： El-Swais H,Dunn KA,Bielawski JP,Li WK,Walsh DA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteria in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster of different life stages was quantified by 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. The sequence reads were dominated by 5 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at ≤ 97% sequence identity that could be assigned to Acetobacter pomorum, A. tropicalis, Lactobacillus...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wong CN,Ng P,Douglas AE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although common knowledge dictates that the lichen thallus is formed solely by a fungus (mycobiont) that develops a symbiotic relationship with an alga and/or cyanobacterium (photobiont), the non-photoautotrophic bacteria found in lichen microbiomes are increasingly regarded as integral components of lichen thalli. Fo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hodkinson BP,Gottel NR,Schadt CW,Lutzoni F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalase family of Beauveria bassiana (fungal entomopathogen) consists of catA (spore-specific), catB (secreted), catP (peroxisomal), catC (cytoplasmic) and catD (secreted peroxidase/catalase), which were distinguished in phylogeny and structure and functionally characterized by constructing single-gene disrupted ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang ZL,Zhang LB,Ying SH,Feng MG

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:A macroarray system was developed to screen environmental samples for the presence of specific tetracycline (Tc(R)) and erythromycin (erm(R)) resistance genes. The macroarray was loaded with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicons of 23 Tc(R) genes and 10 erm(R) genes. Total bacterial genomic DNA was extracted from ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Patterson AJ,Colangeli R,Spigaglia P,Scott KP

更新日期：2007-03-01 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