Quorum sensing regulates 'swim-or-stick' lifestyle in the phycosphere.

abstract：:Since Robert Koch and colleagues found agar to be an effective gelling agent over a century ago, the pure culture method using agar plates has long been a standard of microbiology. Agar is undoubtedly easy to handle and useful for culture of microorganisms, but recent discovery of the ubiquity of microorganisms that c...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tamaki H,Hanada S,Sekiguchi Y,Tanaka Y,Kamagata Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria developed many different ways to orient themselves in the environment. Magnetoreception with following motility along Earth's magnetic field lines and photoreception with subsequent positive or negative phototaxis allow bacteria to optimally position themselves for survival and growth. Some bacteria show both...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wettstadt S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental variation can have profound and direct effects on fitness, fecundity, and host-symbiont interactions. Replication rates of microbes within arthropod hosts, for example, are correlated with incubation temperature but less is known about the influence of host-symbiont dynamics on environmental preference. ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Truitt AM,Kapun M,Kaur R,Miller WJ

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) exploits the metabolism of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) to remove excess phosphorus (P) from wastewater treatment. Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis (Accumulibacter) is the most abundant and well-studied PAO in EBPR systems. In a previous study, we detect...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Watson SJ,Needoba JA,Peterson TD

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a conserved degradation system in eukaryotic cells that includes non-selective and selective processes. Selective autophagy functions as a selective degradation mechanism for specific substrates in which autophagy-related protein 11 (ATG11) acts as an essential scaffold protein. In B. bassiana, there is a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ding JL,Peng YJ,Chu XL,Feng MG,Ying SH

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel hydrothermal activities accompanying effluent white smokers and elemental sulfur chimney structures at the north-east lava dome of the TOTO caldera depression in the Mariana Volcanic Arc have been explored and characterized by geochemical and microbiological surveys. White smoker hydrothermal fluids were observe...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nakagawa T,Takai K,Suzuki Y,Hirayama H,Konno U,Tsunogai U,Horikoshi K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial diversity of an industrial biofilter used for waste gas abatement in an animal-rendering plant was investigated. A 16S rDNA clone library was generated and 444 clones were screened using computer-aided amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA). Of the screened clones, 60.8% showed unique ARDRA...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Friedrich U,Prior K,Altendorf K,Lipski A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans produces melanin within its cell wall for infection and resistance against external stresses such as exposure to UV, temperature fluctuations and reactive oxygen species. It has been reported that melanin may also protect cells from ionizing radiation damage, against which...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schultzhaus Z,Chen A,Kim S,Shuryak I,Chang M,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in a massive influx of hydrocarbons into the Gulf of Mexico (the Gulf). To better understand the fate of the oil, we enriched and isolated indigenous hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from deep, uncontaminated waters from the Gulf with oil (Macondo MC252) and dispersant used durin...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Baelum J,Borglin S,Chakraborty R,Fortney JL,Lamendella R,Mason OU,Auer M,Zemla M,Bill M,Conrad ME,Malfatti SA,Tringe SG,Holman HY,Hazen TC,Jansson JK

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) superfamily proteins are found ubiquitously in microbial pathways involved in the catabolism of aromatic substances. Although extensive bioinformatic data on these proteins have been acquired, confusion caused by problems with the annotation of these proteins hinders research into d...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hong H,Seo H,Park W,Kim KJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the effect of different chloroethenes (electron acceptors) on the bacterial composition of dechlorinating communities, two reductive dechlorinating enrichment cultures were developed that were able to reduce trichloroethene (TCE) and cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) to ethene using hydrogen as electr...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gu AZ,Hedlund BP,Staley JT,Strand SE,Stensel HD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root endophytic fungi are found in a great variety of plants and ecosystems, but the ecological drivers of their biogeographic distribution are poorly understood. Here, we investigate the occurrence of root endophytes in the non-mycorrhizal plant genus Microthlaspi, and the effect of environmental factors and geograph...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Glynou K,Ali T,Buch AK,Haghi Kia S,Ploch S,Xia X,Çelik A,Thines M,Maciá-Vicente JG

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mqsRA operon encodes a toxin-antitoxin pair that was characterized to participate in biofilm and persister cell formation in Escherichia coli. Notably, the antitoxin MqsA possesses a C-terminal DNA-binding domain that recognizes the [5'-AACCT(N)2-4 AGGTT-3'] motif and acts as a transcriptional regulator controllin...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Zhang SP,Zhang MY,Kempher ML,Guo DD,Han JT,Tao X,Wu Y,Zhang LQ,He YX

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Freshwater bacterioplankton assemblages are composed of sympatric populations that can be delineated, for example, by ribosomal RNA gene relatedness and that differ in key ecophysiological properties. They may be free-living or attached, specialized for particular concentrations or subsets of substrates, or invest a v...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Pernthaler J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rhizosphere, phosphorus (P) levels are low because of P uptake into the roots. Rhizobacteria live on carbon (C) exuded from roots, and may contribute to plant nutrition by liberating P from organic compounds such as phytates. We isolated over 300 phytate (Na-inositol hexa-phosphate; Na-IHP)-utilizing bacterial ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Unno Y,Okubo K,Wasaki J,Shinano T,Osaki M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Vibrio cholerae is a human pathogen its primary habitat are aquatic environments. In this environment, V.cholerae takes advantage of the abundance of zooplankton, whose chitinous exoskeletons provide a nutritious surface. Chitin also induces the developmental programme of natural competence in several species...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Blokesch M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-glacial Baltic Sea has experienced extreme changes that are archived today in the deep sediments. IODP Expedition 347 retrieved cores down to 100 m depth and studied the climate history and the deep biosphere. We here review the biogeochemical and microbiological highlights and integrate these with other stud...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Jørgensen BB,Andrén T,Marshall IPG

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance Nodulation cell Division (RND) efflux pumps are known to contribute to the tolerance of Pseudomonas putida to aromatic hydrocarbons, but their role in antibiotic resistance has not been fully elucidated. In this study, two types of single-step multidrug-resistant (MDR) mutants were selected in vitro from re...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Puja H,Comment G,Chassagne S,Plésiat P,Jeannot K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wastewater treatment plants effluents are considered as hotspots for the dispersion of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) into natural ecosystems. The bacterial resistome (ARG collection in a metagenome) analyses have provided clues on antibacterial resistance dynamics. However, viruses and vesicles are frequently ign...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Maestre-Carballa L,Lluesma Gomez M,Angla Navarro A,Garcia-Heredia I,Martinez-Hernandez F,Martinez-Garcia M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coralline algae are a crucial component of reef systems, stabilising reef substrate, providing habitat and contributing to accretion. Coralline algae and their surface microbial biofilms are also important as settlement cues for marine invertebrates, yet few studies address the impact of future environmental condition...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Huggett MJ,McMahon K,Bernasconi R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The severe environmental stresses of the Arctic may have promoted unique soil bacterial communities compared with those found in lower latitude environments. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of the biogeography of soil bacterial communities in the Arctic using a high resolution bar-coded pyrosequencing techni...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Chu H,Fierer N,Lauber CL,Caporaso JG,Knight R,Grogan P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continent-scale biogeography has been extensively studied in soils and marine systems, but little is known about biogeographical patterns in non-marine sediments. We used barcode pyrosequencing to quantify the effects of local geochemical properties and geographic distance for bacterial community structure and members...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Xiong J,Liu Y,Lin X,Zhang H,Zeng J,Hou J,Yang Y,Yao T,Knight R,Chu H

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:The transcription of S-PM2 phage following infection of Synechococcus sp. WH7803, a marine cyanobacterium, was analysed by quantitative real-time PCR. Unlike the distantly related coliphage T4, there were only two (early and late) instead of three (early, middle and late) classes of transcripts during the developmenta...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Clokie MR,Shan J,Bailey S,Jia Y,Krisch HM,West S,Mann NH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activated sludge process relies on the formation of strong microbial flocs. The knowledge about dominant floc-forming bacteria is at present very limited, especially from a phylogenetic perspective. In this study, numerous microcolonies in the activated sludge flocs were found to be targeted by a Betaproteobacteri...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thomsen TR,Nielsen JL,Ramsing NB,Nielsen PH

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are dynamic players in biogeochemical cycling in running waters and are subjected to environmental stressors like those provoked by climate change. We investigated whether a 2°C increase in flowing water would affect prokaryotic community composition and heterotrophic metabolic activities of biofilms grown un...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Romaní AM,Borrego CM,Díaz-Villanueva V,Freixa A,Gich F,Ylla I

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to global warming, increasing quantities of tDOM are transported through estuaries from land to the sea. In this study, we investigated microbial responses to increased tDOM concentrations in three salinity regimes (salinity: 32, 7 and 3) characteristic of the Baltic Sea. Mesocosm experiments performed in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Herlemann DPR,Manecki M,Dittmar T,Jürgens K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoospores of the eukaryotic green seaweed Ulva respond to bacterial N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) quorum sensing signal molecules for the selection of surface sites for permanent attachment. In this study we have investigated the production and destruction of AHLs in biofilms of the AHL-producing marine bacterium, Vi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tait K,Joint I,Daykin M,Milton DL,Williams P,Cámara M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri is the monospecific symbiont of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, and the establishment of this association involves a number of signaling pathways and transcriptional responses between both partners. We report here the first full RNA-Seq dataset representing host-asso...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson LR,Nikolakakis K,Pan S,Reed J,Knight R,Ruby EG

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00