Founder events influence structures of Aspergillus flavus populations.

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：:Yersinia ruckeri is the causative agent of enteric redmouth in fish and one of the major bacterial pathogens causing losses in salmonid aquaculture. Previously typing methods, including restriction enzyme analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) have indicated a clonal po...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bastardo A,Ravelo C,Romalde JL

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Vibrio cholerae's capacity to cause outbreaks of cholera is linked to its survival and adaptability to changes in aquatic environments. One of the environmental conditions that can vary in V. cholerae's natural aquatic habitats is calcium (Ca(+2)). In this study, we investigated the response of V. cholerae to changes ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bilecen K,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In San Biagio of Belpasso, approximately 20 km south of Mt. Etna, in the area of contact between volcanic and sedimentary formations, a number of small (3- 60 cm in diameter) active mud eruptions discharge CO2-rich gases, mud and NaCl brines. They can be described as mini-volcanoes owing to their typical conic shapes ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yakimov MM,Giuliano L,Crisafi E,Chernikova TN,Timmis KN,Golyshin PN

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects and nematodes represent the most species-rich animal taxa and they occur together in a variety of associations. Necromenic nematodes of the genus Pristionchus are found on scarab beetles with more than 30 species known from worldwide samplings. However, little is known about the dynamics and succession of nema...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meyer JM,Baskaran P,Quast C,Susoy V,Rödelsperger C,Glöckner FO,Sommer RJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The depth distribution and diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) was analysed in the upper intertidal zone of a sandy marine sediment of the Dutch island Schiermonnikoog. The upper centimetre of the sediment included the oxic-anoxic interface and was cut into five slices. With each slice, most probable number ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wieringa EB,Overmann J,Cypionka H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the product of a desired reaction to activate a bacterial transcriptional regulator was exploited to develop genetic traps that render the catalytic activity born by a DNA clone into a selectable/scorable phenotype. We established this strategy with a system to expose the activity of dehydrochlorinases ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Mohn WW,Garmendia J,Galvao TC,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine alphaproteobacterium Roseovarius nubinhibens ISM can produce the gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS) from dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), a widespread secondary metabolite that occurs in many phytoplankton. Roseovarius possesses a novel gene, termed dddP, which when cloned, confers on Escherichia coli the ability...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Todd JD,Curson AR,Dupont CL,Nicholson P,Johnston AW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein kinase Sch9 is one of the downstream effectors of the target of rapamycin (TOR) complex 1 and plays multiple roles in stress resistance, longevity and nutrient sensing. However, the functions of Sch9 orthologs in filamentous fungi, particularly in pathogenic species, have not been char...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gu Q,Zhang C,Yu F,Yin Y,Shim WB,Ma Z

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulose degradation is central to the carbon cycle and renewable biotechnologies. The xyloglucan (XyG), β(1→3)/β(1→4) mixed-linkage glucan (MLG) and β(1→3) glucan components of lignocellulose represent significant carbohydrate energy sources for saprophytic microorganisms. The bacterium Cellvibrio japonicus has...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nelson CE,Attia MA,Rogowski A,Morland C,Brumer H,Gardner JG

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if different algal viruses (Phycodnaviridae) share common patterns of seasonal abundance, quantitative PCR methods were developed and applied to monitor the abundances of three different viruses in Lake Ontario, Canada over 13 months. Throughout the year, the abundances of two different phycodnavirus polB...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Short SM,Short CM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated analytical parameters that are inherently relevant to identifying and quantifying fungal communities based on polymerase chain reaction amplicons. Specifically, we evaluated the accuracy of the BLASTn-based identification for internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences generated from pure cultu...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yamamoto N,Dannemiller KC,Bibby K,Peccia J

更新日期：2014-09-01 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 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：:Previous studies of hot (>80 degrees C) microbial ecosystems have primarily relied on the study of pure cultures or analysis of 16S rDNA sequences. In order to gain more information on anaerobic metabolism by natural communities in hot environments, sediments were collected from a shallow marine hydrothermal vent syst...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tor JM,Amend JP,Lovley DR

更新日期：2003-07-01 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 type VI nanomachine is critical for Vibrio cholerae to establish infections and to thrive in niches co-occupied by competing bacteria. The genes for the type VI structural proteins are encoded in one large and two small auxiliary gene clusters. VCA0117 (VasH) - a σ54 -transcriptional activator - is strictly requir...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Seibt H,Aung KM,Ishikawa T,Sjöström A,Gullberg M,Atkinson GC,Wai SN,Shingler V

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:The surface and surroundings of microalgal cells (phycosphere) are critical interaction zones but have been difficult to functionally interrogate due to methodological limitations. We examined effects of phycosphere-associated bacteria for two biofuel-relevant microalgal species (Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Nannochl...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Samo TJ,Kimbrel JA,Nilson DJ,Pett-Ridge J,Weber PK,Mayali X

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are regarded as the main N(2)-fixing organisms in marine waters. However, recent clone libraries from various oceans show a wide distribution of the dinitrogenase reductase gene (nifH) originating from heterotrophic bacterioplankton. We isolated heterotrophic N(2)-fixing bacteria from Baltic Sea bacterio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Boström KH,Riemann L,Kühl M,Hagström A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroalgae are important ecosystem engineers in temperate marine waters. The function of macroalgae is intimately linked to the composition and structure of their epibiotic bacterial, communities, and evidence has emerged that bacteria can also have a negative impact on their host by causing disease. A few examples ex...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Egan S,Fernandes ND,Kumar V,Gardiner M,Thomas T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular signatures of new, as yet uncultured mollicute-like organisms (MLOs) have been detected in total rRNA and DNA extracted from tissues, gut contents and casts of four species of the earthworm family Lumbricidae. The MLO 16S rRNA sequences exhibited low identity to those of known Mollicutes species and formed a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nechitaylo TY,Timmis KN,Golyshin PN

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle regulation is pivotal for proper cell division and cellular differentiation in eukaryotic cells. The central regulators that govern eukaryotic cell cycle progression are cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and their partners. Here, we report that Magnaporthe oryzae CKS1 encodes a cyclin-dependent kinase subunit...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yue X,Que Y,Deng S,Xu L,Oses-Ruiz M,Talbot NJ,Peng Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragilariopsis is a dominating psychrophilic diatom genus in polar sea ice. The two species Fragilariopsis cylindrus and Fragilariopsis curta are able to grow and divide below freezing temperature of sea water and above average sea water salinity. Here we show that antifreeze proteins (AFPs), involved in cold adaptati...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bayer-Giraldi M,Uhlig C,John U,Mock T,Valentin K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functioning of natural microbial ecosystems is influenced by various biotic and abiotic conditions. The careful experimental manipulation of environmental conditions can drive microbial ecosystems toward exhibiting desirable types of functionality. Such manipulations can be systematically approached by viewing the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Vandecasteele FP,Crawford RL,Hess TF

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent scenarios of fresh produce contamination by human enteric pathogens have resulted in severe food-borne outbreaks, and a new paradigm has emerged stating that some human-associated bacteria can use plants as secondary hosts. As a consequence, there has been growing concern in the scientific community about these...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez-García PM,López-Solanilla E,Ramos C,Rodríguez-Palenzuela P

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：:Ecteinascidin 743 (ET-743, Yondelis) is a clinically approved chemotherapeutic natural product isolated from the Caribbean mangrove tunicate Ecteinascidia turbinata. Researchers have long suspected that a microorganism may be the true producer of the anticancer drug, but its genome has remained elusive due to our inab...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schofield MM,Jain S,Porat D,Dick GJ,Sherman DH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00